{"id":72204,"date":"2017-09-11T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=72204"},"modified":"2017-09-11T14:52:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T12:52:56","slug":"body-found-one-week-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/09\/11\/body-found-one-week-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found one week after accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, Burgersfort resident Christopher Makofane was in an accident in which the car he was travelling in rolled multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>He survived the incident and when police arrived he provided them with all his personal information as well as details of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Just minutes later he was talking on his cellphone and wandered off &#8211; oblivious to the fact that he was metres away from a long trench filled with water alongside Black Wattle Colliery.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72183\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72183\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/IMG_1614_33205-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/IMG_1614_33205-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/IMG_1614_33205-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/IMG_1614_33205-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/IMG_1614_33205.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Makofane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He slipped and fell inside but no one noticed and after searching for him for hours it was assumed that he had fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Last week a passerby noticed a body floating in the water and notified the police, who upon arrival were able to establish that it was the same man involved in an accident a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased died of drowning and his body has since been transported to Burgersfort to his family.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72205\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72205\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/bodyfound-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/bodyfound-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/bodyfound-LL-ZN-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police search and rescue teams recovered the body from a trench next to the road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a man who was involved in a car accident on the Bethal road and mysteriously vanished nearly two weeks ago, was found last week floating in a trench of water at Black Wattle Colliery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":72205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen 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