{"id":17541,"date":"2014-09-03T16:54:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T14:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=17541"},"modified":"2017-09-08T08:39:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T06:39:15","slug":"video-five-burn-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2014\/09\/03\/video-five-burn-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Five burn to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three cars were involved in the accident. Two of them burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p>Bystanders managed to pull a woman from a wreck but had to look on helplessly as her husband burned to death after their Nissan Juke caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses, one of the deceased got out of a Toyota Corolla and seemed to spontaneously combust. It is suspected that he was covered in petrol.<\/p>\n<p>He burned to death next to the Juke whilst four of his companions died inside the Corolla.<\/p>\n<p>The fire spread into the veld next to the N4 and had farmers scrambling with water carts to extinguish it before it turned into a veld fire.<\/p>\n<p>Impatient motorists caused for a major traffic jam blocking ER24 ambulances from getting the only surviving and critically injured patient to hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warning: Graphic Content &#8211; Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AygRXmefZwI' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people burned to death in a horrific accident on the N4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":17544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff and Zsaraeva Nel","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1025,1773,1448,2201,1438],"class_list":["post-17541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-accident","tag-brand","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-fire"],"category_labels":null,"tag_labels":["accident","brand","crash","fatal","fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}