{"id":71417,"date":"2017-08-29T08:16:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T06:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=71417"},"modified":"2017-08-30T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T06:43:41","slug":"video-eastdene-resident-killed-bizarre-n4-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/29\/video-eastdene-resident-killed-bizarre-n4-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Eastdene resident killed in bizarre N4 accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accident occurred shortly after 19:00 when a man driving in the oncoming lane, collided with the woman and her passenger.<\/p>\n<p>According to witnesses the man crossed the wide grass median into oncoming traffic where the collision occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle which caused the accident was immediately taken from the scene for blood-alcohol tests.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HsFLxl_bUBo' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The man appeared very confused immediately after the accident and allegedly attempted to assault a member of the public who asked him why he was driving in the oncoming lane.<\/p>\n<p>A large number of Eastdene residents gathered on the scene shortly after the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the deceased is yet to be released.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71419\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/08\/IMG_0798-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/08\/IMG_0798-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/08\/IMG_0798-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman from Eastdene was killed on the N4 between the Hendrina and Samora Machel onramps last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":71418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder and Daleen Naude","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71417","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=71417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}