Many\u00a0drivers opted to cross the embankment, which consisted of a V-shaped water drain. Vehicles were scratched and even almost toppled\u00a0when they crossed it.<\/p>\n
Other drivers waited on the side of the road for the scene to be cleared.<\/p>\n
Soccer players from Supersport United<\/a> were among the curious crowd of onlookers who stood around the accident scene.<\/p>\n Former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Andre Arendse<\/a>, New Zealand international Jeremy Brockie<\/a>, and crowd favourite Bradley Grobler<\/a> were instantly recognised.<\/p>\n What followed was a steady stream of fans requesting photos, selfies and friendly banter.<\/p>\n Amidst the shouts to say ‘Cheeeeese’ and also ‘Chieeeeeeefs’ for the camera, players enjoyed a few social moments and laughter on the sidelines of what was otherwise a depressing scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Supersport United team bus was among the vehicles stuck in traffic during the three-hour clearance operation after an accident on the N4 highway on Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":74785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2886],"tags":[902,8765,8767,8766,21966,21990,8764,8763],"class_list":["post-74784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-accident-on-n4","tag-andre-arendse","tag-bradley-grobler","tag-jeremy-brockie","tag-middelburg","tag-mpumalanga","tag-south-african-soccer","tag-supersport-united"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Accident on N4","andre arendse","bradley grobler","jeremy brockie","middelburg","Mpumalanga","south african soccer","supersport united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74784","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}