{"id":62486,"date":"2017-01-31T14:29:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=62486"},"modified":"2017-02-01T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T08:48:44","slug":"video-and-photos-ambulance-hit-by-hippo-underway-to-accident-outside-pretoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/31\/video-and-photos-ambulance-hit-by-hippo-underway-to-accident-outside-pretoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Video and photos: Ambulance hit by hippo outside Pretoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Life 24 ambulance was hit by the hippo on the R573, between Montana and Kwamahlanga, at about 21:30 last night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/01\/Ambulans1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62491\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/01\/Ambulans1-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"Ambulans1\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to an eyewitness, the hippo came out of the bush and ran straight towards the vehicle. The ambulance was on its\u00a0way to another accident scene when the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/01\/ambulans6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62490\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/01\/ambulans6-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"ambulans6\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The driver, Mr Liver Maila, sustained broken legs and is critically injured while his passenger, Mr Jimmy Mmkola, sustained head and facial injuries. A third medic who was sitting in the back of the vehicle miraculously sustained no injuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/01\/Ambulans4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62494\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/01\/Ambulans4-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"Ambulans4\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hippo, weighing three tonnes, died on impact. The ambulance, a Toyota Quantum, was completely ruined by the high impact accident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/260600860798121\/videos\/622430151281855\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch video of an emotional Mercia Blake, Life 24 spokesperson, the scene here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ambulance rammed into a hippopotamus in an accident which occurred just outside Pretoria last night, and has left two medics seriously injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":62493,"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":[1025,2464,6273,6274,4902,6272,6278,6279,3006,6276,6275,6277,6280],"class_list":["post-62486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-ambulance","tag-hippo","tag-kwamhlanga","tag-life-24","tag-mercia-blake","tag-only-in-africa","tag-paramedics","tag-pretoria","tag-r573","tag-toyota","tag-wildlife-accident","tag-you-know-youre-in-africa-when"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","ambulance","hippo","kwamhlanga","Life 24","mercia blake","only in africa","paramedics","pretoria","R573","toyota","wildlife accident","you know youre in africa when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62486","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=62486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}