{"id":76689,"date":"2017-12-18T14:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T12:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=76689"},"modified":"2017-12-20T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T09:24:30","slug":"eyewitness-sees-man-torn-half-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/12\/18\/eyewitness-sees-man-torn-half-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyewitness sees how man is torn in half"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man, who wished to remain anonymous, was underway to Bronkhorstspruit from Middelburg when he was involved in an accident suspected to have been caused by wet road conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCars were being flung from the one lane to the other when they reached a certain point,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n

Read: Traffic Update: Expect delays on N4 between Middelburg and eMalahleni<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

At least 10 cars were involved in the accident.<\/p>\n

The witness said that he and another car came to a standstill. The driver of the other car got out whilst he remained seated. A dark sedan crashed into the car infront of him before crashing into his vehicle.<\/p>\n

Read: Accident scene cleared on N4 between Middelburg and eMalahleni<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The man standing next to the car was hit and cut in half in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was blood all over my bonnet. It was a horrific thing to witness: the man standing there and all of a sudden he is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 The identity of the man killed\u00a0is not known.<\/p>\n

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An eyewitness told of how he witnessed the horrific event of another man being torn in half during a pile-up accident on the N4 recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":76526,"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":[1025,9754,2996,21966,901,9755,8619,9842,4715],"class_list":["post-76689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-caution","tag-emalahleni","tag-middelburg","tag-n4","tag-traffic-conditions","tag-traffic-update","tag-wet-road","tag-witbank"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","caution","emalahleni","middelburg","n4","traffic conditions","traffic update","wet road","Witbank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76689","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=76689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}