{"id":71964,"date":"2017-09-05T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=71964"},"modified":"2017-09-06T12:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T10:28:15","slug":"video-two-patients-airlifted-hospital-r555-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/09\/05\/video-two-patients-airlifted-hospital-r555-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Two patients airlifted to hospital after R555 accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ER24&#8217;s Air Angel touched down at the Middelburg Fire Brigade, picking up their second patient for the day. The patient, a man with head injuries, was transported from Life Midmed in Middelburg to a hospital in Gauteng.<\/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\/Gif_ajZyZi4' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>This after a <a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/71843\/video-gruesome-accident-r555\/\" target=\"_blank\">horror accident<\/a> this morning on the Stoffberg Road (R555) which left three people dead and six seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>One of the six seriously injured patients, a female who sustained serious head injuries, is in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened when a pickup, believed to belong to a mine contractor, rear-ended a Nissan 1400 bakkie carrying passengers on the back in a canopy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See a video of the accident scene, and how civilians offer help to paramedics here:<\/strong><\/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\/lT7OTpO57qM' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read previous story and see photos of accident scene here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/71923\/update-warning-graphic-content-three-confirmed-dead-stoffberg-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warning &#8211; Graphic content: Horror accident on R555<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second patient was airlifted from Middelburg to a hospital in Gauteng this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":71967,"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":[7,2],"tags":[1025,7495,2024,2536,1026,7496,7497,7470,7482],"class_list":["post-71964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-death-road","tag-er24","tag-horror","tag-r555","tag-road-fatalities","tag-south-african-roads","tag-stoffberg-road","tag-three-dead"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","death road","ER24","horror","R555","road fatalities","South African roads","stoffberg road","three dead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71964","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=71964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}