{"id":62472,"date":"2017-01-31T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T07:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=62472"},"modified":"2017-02-01T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T06:21:40","slug":"six-die-in-horror-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/31\/six-die-in-horror-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Six die in horror crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accident happened at about 20:00 when a light delivery vehicle (bakkie) with a trailer, lost control on the wet road and hit an oncoming bus from Mozambique head on.<\/p>\n<p>The bakkie was driving in the direction of Middelburg and the bus in the direction of Nelspruit. There were 40 passengers in the bus. The bus has a Mozambican number plate.<\/p>\n<p>Six passengers in the bakkie, which included three men, three women and a baby girl, were killed on impact. The driver and a passenger of the City Liner bus were taken to the Middelburg Provincial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The six deceased have not been formally identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people, one a baby girl, died in a horrific accident near Paardeplaas, about five kilometers from Belfast on the N4 direction Middelburg, last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":62473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[1025,1453,1446,6271,1448,1297,901,6270,6269,6268],"class_list":["post-62472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-belfast","tag-bus","tag-city-liner","tag-crash","tag-middelburg-provincial-hospital","tag-n4","tag-paardeplaas","tag-six-dead","tag-six-people-dead"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["accident","Belfast","bus","City Liner","crash","Middelburg Provincial Hospital","n4","paardeplaas","six dead","six people dead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62472","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}