{"id":90592,"date":"2019-03-03T17:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T15:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=90592"},"modified":"2019-03-04T07:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T05:45:57","slug":"trafficupdate-n4-eastbound-grinds-halt-accident-claims-four-lives-near-middelburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/03\/03\/trafficupdate-n4-eastbound-grinds-halt-accident-claims-four-lives-near-middelburg\/","title":{"rendered":"#TrafficUpdate: N4 eastbound grinds to a halt after accident claims four lives near Middelburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

The accident occurred when two vehicles collided. Both vehicles were traveling in the direction of Belfast from Middelburg.<\/p>\n

Traffic is almost at a complete standstill.<\/p>\n

Use alternative routes where possible.<\/p>\n

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Traffic at the Hendrina offramp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Traffic towards Bethal offramp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Four people have lost their lives in an accident on the N4 between the Samora Machel and Hendrina offramps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":90593,"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":[16780,16781,10010,16778,12898,15567,16344,16779,8619,10333],"class_list":["post-90592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident-on-n4-near-middelburg","tag-four-lives-lost-in-n4-accident","tag-local-news","tag-local-traffic","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-traffic","tag-n4-traffic-update","tag-traffic-on-n4-eastbound-grinds-to-halt","tag-traffic-update","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident on N4 near middelburg","four lives lost in N4 accident","local news","local traffic","middelburg news","middelburg traffic","N4 traffic update","traffic on N4 eastbound grinds to halt","traffic update","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90592","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=90592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}