{"id":44438,"date":"2016-03-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/44438\/eight-die-in-weekend-road-carnage\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:42:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T12:42:03","slug":"eight-die-in-weekend-road-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/10\/eight-die-in-weekend-road-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight die in weekend road carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Six men died on their way back to town, following Lobola negotiations on a farm out on the Stoffberg road.<\/p>\n<p>The men, who still needs to be identified by their next of kin, were travelling in a Nissan LDV. The driver lost control of the vehicle and it overturned.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services found five deceased males on the scene. A sixth man was later found by a farmer on his land. The man had also succumbed to injuries sustained in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 On Sunday, one person died in a T-bone collision close to Alzu Petroport on the N4. The cause of the accident is yet to be determined by police.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fire and rescue services also told the Middelburg Observer that two people passed away on the Groblersdal road, shortly after the N4 collision around 15:00 on Sunday. Only one vehicle was involved in the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was another bloody weekend on Middelburg&#8217;s roads, with eight confirmed deaths in vehicle collisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":44439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44438","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=44438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}