{"id":33270,"date":"2015-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/33270\/one-killed-on-n4\/"},"modified":"2015-08-24T13:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:45:33","slug":"one-killed-on-n4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/24\/one-killed-on-n4\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed on N4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accident, which took place close to the Woestalleen offramp, was allegedly caused by one of the motorists who attempted to make a u-turn across the freeway.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota Hilux was hit on the driver door by a Ford Focus.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Toyota, died minutes after the accident whilst the driver of the Ford was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses to the accident said that it seemed that the Toyota wanted to make a u-turn.<\/p>\n<p>The scene was secured by Trac Accident Response with flagmen and cones to warn other motorists to approach with caution. Police and the Fire Deparment were also on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The identities of the people involved were not made public at the time of going to press.<\/p>\n<p>Read related news here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/27567\/wonderwerk-op-n4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wonderwerk op N4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/17541\/video-five-burn-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Five burn to death<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Send a message to our <strong>SMS line 37 940<\/strong> or add us onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">@Mobserv<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video\u2019s<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person was killed and another seriously injured when two vehicles collided on the N4 on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":33271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33270","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}