{"id":66567,"date":"2017-05-09T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T06:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=66567"},"modified":"2017-05-09T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T08:25:31","slug":"breaking-news-bus-truck-crash-n4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/05\/09\/breaking-news-bus-truck-crash-n4\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Bus and truck crash on N4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collision then impacted a bakkie carrying passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services worked for over an hour to free a passenger and at the time of going to publication Emergency Services were still on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRACN4route?src=hash\">#TRACN4route<\/a>. 07:45. Recovery in progress on the Van Dyksdrift On + Off ramps, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Middelburg?src=hash\">#Middelburg<\/a>. Road CLOSED. Don&#8217;t make u-turns on the N4.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TRAC N4 Toll Route (@TRACN4route) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TRACN4route\/status\/861819607501373440\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Traffic was backed up by a few kilometeres and the delay was said to be between 20 and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Several people were reported to be injured on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the accident will be published as information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck and a mini bus transporting workers collided early on Tuesday morning in an accident on the N4 highway at the Vandyksdrift offramp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":66568,"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":[7,2],"tags":[1025,1448,1049,1992,901,6874,1088],"class_list":["post-66567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-crash","tag-danger","tag-gevaar","tag-n4","tag-track","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","crash","danger","gevaar","n4","Track","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66567","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=66567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}