{"id":45107,"date":"2016-03-16T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/45107\/nine-children-in-taxi-accident\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T10:29:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T08:29:33","slug":"nine-children-in-taxi-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/16\/nine-children-in-taxi-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine children in taxi accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to information obtained at the accident scene, the brakes of the taxi failed, causing the driver to take a split-second decision to try and stop the vehicle at the centre rather than attempting to cross the busy intersection where Verdoorn Street and Cowen Ntuli Street cross.<\/p>\n<p>Nine children and three adults were treated by ER24 paramedics. One of the adults, a pregnant woman who rushed to the scene after hearing about the accident, had to be treated after she went into shock and started getting contractions.<\/p>\n<p>Unconfirmed reports have it that she is the sister of the taxi driver as well as the mother of one of the children involved in the accident.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-45107 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/16\/nine-children-in-taxi-accident\/attachment\/bjmrt48-1-16_38729\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/03\/BJMRT48-1-16_38729-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/03\/BJMRT48-1-16_38729-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/03\/BJMRT48-1-16_38729-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/03\/BJMRT48-1-16_38729.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45109'>\n\t\t\t\tNine school children and three adults, one a family member who rushed to the scene after the accident, were treated for minor injuries and shock. Barend Labuschagne form ER24 stands in front of the young patients.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A taxi transporting school children crashed against a pillar at the Eastdene Centre on the corner of Verdoorn- and Cowen Ntuli Street on Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":45108,"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":[7,2],"tags":[1025],"class_list":["post-45107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45107","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=45107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}