{"id":71843,"date":"2017-09-05T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=71843"},"modified":"2017-09-05T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T08:25:47","slug":"video-gruesome-accident-r555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/09\/05\/video-gruesome-accident-r555\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Gruesome accident on R555"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accident\u00a0has already claimed the lives of at least two people. The road was closed for a while causing traffic to pile up for at least a kilometre.<\/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\/hPvQlNehL1w' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bystanders said that a pickup truck belonging to a mine contractor hit a Nissan 1400 with people on the back, from behind. The impact caused the occupants of the Nissan to fly into the air with two people landing under the other vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71919\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/1-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/1-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/1-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People, injured and dead, lay strewn over the road surface with paramedics from ER24, Mpumacare and the Provincial Emergency Services running from patient to patient looking for signs of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is trying to open a lane on the road reserve but expect heavy delays when travelling on the Stoffberg Road (R555).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect heavy delays after a gruesome accident on the Stoffberg Road (R555). Eyewitnesses recalled with shock how bodies lay strewn across the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":71918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[1025,7472,5048,7471,21966,1026,7470,2023],"class_list":["post-71843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-death-trap","tag-fatal-accident","tag-gruesome","tag-middelburg","tag-r555","tag-stoffberg-road","tag-traffic"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["accident","death trap","Fatal accident","gruesome","middelburg","R555","stoffberg road","traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71843","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=71843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}