{"id":68437,"date":"2017-06-19T08:28:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T06:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=68437"},"modified":"2017-06-19T15:39:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:39:20","slug":"n4-schoemanspoort-crash-3-dead-7-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/06\/19\/n4-schoemanspoort-crash-3-dead-7-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"N4 Schoemanspoort crash-3 dead-7 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from the scene indicate that an Avanza was travelling down the hill in the rain when it spun out, a BMW x5 travelling up the hill reportedly collided into their side.<\/p>\n<p>Exact detail to the cause of the crash and preceding events is still speculative and will form part of the police investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics arrived at the scene and found accident debris and the twitted frames of the vehicles, consistent with that of a high impact collision, littering the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The impact on the Avanza was so big that the back seat with three females was ripped out, and was ejected from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68439\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/crash1_49481_tn-502x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/crash1_49481_tn-502x400.jpg 502w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/crash1_49481_tn-250x200.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After medics examined the injured it was found that three females were still trapped in the Avanza but tragically died on impact.<\/p>\n<p>The three that was ejected was found lying on the roadway, two in a critical condition while one was seriously injured. Four females from the BMW also sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics worked tirelessly at the scene to stabilise the injured before they were transported to various hospitals for the care that they required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 11:43 on Sunday morning Netcare 911 paramedics responded to a collision on the N4 at Schoemanspoort, about thirty kilometres outside Nelspruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":68438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tobie van den Bergh","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68437","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\/68437","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=68437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}