{"id":75076,"date":"2017-11-08T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=75076"},"modified":"2017-11-08T16:48:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:48:09","slug":"caution-accident-n4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/11\/08\/caution-accident-n4\/","title":{"rendered":"Caution &#8211; accident on N4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to initial information, a Volkswagen Polo collided with a bakkie after it skidded on the wet road surface.<\/p>\n<p>The accident took place on the N4 direction eMalahleni between the Samora Machel and Van Dijksdrift off-ramps.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Polo was declared dead on the scene whilst a passenger from the same car was seriously injured and taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The occupants of the bakkie did not sustain serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>One lane is closed whilst police are busy on the accident scene. Drive with caution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accident involving two vehicles took place on the N4 this afternoon. Drive with caution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":75077,"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":[902,2996,8940,21966,900,8939,8942,8619,8941,4715],"class_list":["post-75076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident-on-n4","tag-emalahleni","tag-fontein","tag-middelburg","tag-ongeluk","tag-samora-machel","tag-slippery-roads","tag-traffic-update","tag-van-dijksdrift","tag-witbank"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Accident on N4","emalahleni","fontein","middelburg","ongeluk","samora machel","slippery roads","traffic update","van dijksdrift","Witbank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75076","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=75076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}