{"id":61830,"date":"2017-01-11T18:43:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=61830"},"modified":"2017-01-12T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T11:40:55","slug":"six-die-in-horrific-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/11\/six-die-in-horrific-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Six die in horrific accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The taxi and police vehicle were both travelling in the direction of Middelburg.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the police vehicle, belonging to the Vosman precinct, claimed that the taxi suddenly switched lanes in front of him causing the vehicles to collide.<\/p>\n<p>The taxi was flung into the oncoming lane with several passengers falling out of the vehicle in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened between the Alzu Petroport and the Wonderfontein offramp just after 15:00 this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Injured people were treated by ER24 and provincial ambulances and taken to hospitals in Belfast and Middelburg.<\/p>\n<p>Four men and two women count among the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Read other news here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/61725\/video-waarskuwing-nie-vir-sensitiewe-luiteraars-soos-diere-agtervolg-hulle-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO (Waarskuwing \u2013 Nie vir sensitiewe luisteraars) \u2013 Soos diere agtervolg hulle man<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/61711\/n4-vosman-protest-site-cleared-open-for-traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\"> N4 Vosman protest site cleared, open for traffic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/61704\/n4-closed-at-vosman-due-to-protest-on-highway\/\" target=\"_blank\">N4 closed at Vosman due to protest on highway<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/61707\/opvolg-is-lodge-aan-die-brand-gesteek\/\" target=\"_blank\">Opvolg: Is lodge aan die brand gesteek?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/61699\/damstand-stabiliseer-te-danke-aan-naweekreen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Damstand stabiliseer te danke aan naweekre\u00ebn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accident on the N4 between a taxi and a police vehicle claimed the lives of six people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":61832,"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":[],"class_list":["post-61830","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\/61830","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=61830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}