{"id":49938,"date":"2016-06-01T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/49938\/pedestrian-killed-on-van-dyksdrift-road\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T06:11:43","slug":"pedestrian-killed-on-van-dyksdrift-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/01\/pedestrian-killed-on-van-dyksdrift-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed on Van Dyksdrift road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene and found the man lying in the field alongside the road.<\/p>\n<p>Upon assessment it was found that the man sustained fatal injuries. He was declared dead&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>None of the occupants of the vehicle were injured and the exact cause of the incident is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>SAPS spokesperson Lize de Witt confirmed the incident, adding that the pedestrian was riding a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>The victim is yet to be identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man believed to be in his 20&#8217;s died on Sunday evening after he was knocked by a car on the Van Dyksdrift Road, according to Chitra Bodasing, ER24 spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":49983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[2024,4744,4743,4745,4747,4742,4740,4741,4746],"class_list":["post-49938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-er24","tag-er24-paramedics","tag-er24-spokesperson","tag-fatal-injuries","tag-injured","tag-knocked-by-a-car","tag-sunday-evening","tag-van-dyksdrift-road","tag-vehicle"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["ER24","ER24 paramedics","ER24 spokesperson","fatal injuries","injured","knocked by a car","Sunday evening","Van Dyksdrift Road","vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49938","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=49938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}