{"id":77203,"date":"2018-01-11T11:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T09:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=77203"},"modified":"2018-01-17T08:49:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T06:49:43","slug":"breaking-police-van-stuck-side-olifants-river-next-n4-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/01\/11\/breaking-police-van-stuck-side-olifants-river-next-n4-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Police van stuck on its side in Olifants River next to N4 highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists were flabbergasted by a police van stuck on its side inside the Olifants River a short distance from the bridge crossing on the N4 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Presently its still unclear what transpired but eyewitnesses say that the marked police van had been in the river since Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wettens were awaiting instructions to hoist up the van from the river since 08:00 this morning.<\/p>\n<p>No police members were present on the scene to give explanations on how exactly the van ended up in the water.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the driver lost control of the van in slippery conditions before plunging into the river.<\/p>\n<p>eMalahleni SAPS spokespersons could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is believed that the driver lost control of the van in slippery conditions before plunging into the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2847,"featured_media":77204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10057,1548,10058,5543,972,10056],"class_list":["post-77203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-incompetence","tag-n4-highway","tag-olifants-bridge","tag-olifants-river","tag-police","tag-saps-van"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["incompetence","N4 Highway","olifants bridge","Olifants River","police","saps van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77203","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\/2847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}