{"id":87665,"date":"2018-12-05T12:59:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T10:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=87665"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:53:16","slug":"fender-bender-leaves-traffic-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/12\/05\/fender-bender-leaves-traffic-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Fender bender leaves a traffic jam"},"content":{"rendered":"

The accident took place on the corner of Walter Sisulu- and SADC Street at roughly 11:00 this morning.<\/p>\n

The traffic department has released no information on the cause of the accident, but it is known that the motorist driving the silver Nissan was taken into custody at the scene.<\/p>\n

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The motorist driving the silver Nissan was taken into custody and is seated in the traffic control vehicle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The vehicle that was rear-ended was not carrying any medical waste at the time, and no serious injuries or damages were sustained.<\/p>\n

The scene was controlled by the traffic police and fire brigade and has since been cleared up.<\/p>\n

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The silver Nissan was moved to a parking area to make way for traffic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Traffic was brought to a standstill on Walter Sisulu Street after a silver Nissan rear-ended a medical waste management vehicle pulling a trailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":87666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[15186,15188,12454,15189,10010,15190,12898,15191,10333,15187],"class_list":["post-87665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident-in-middelburg-cbd","tag-accident-on-walter-sisulu-street","tag-accidents-in-middelburg","tag-fender-bender","tag-local-news","tag-medical-waste-management-vehicle-involved-in-collision","tag-middelburg-news","tag-one-driver-taken-into-custody-after-collision","tag-trusted-news","tag-walter-sisulu-and-sadc-street"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident in middelburg cbd","accident on walter sisulu street","Accidents in Middelburg","fender bender","local news","medical waste management vehicle involved in collision","middelburg news","one driver taken into custody after collision","trusted news","walter sisulu and SADC street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87665","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}