{"id":91867,"date":"2019-03-31T15:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=91867"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T08:31:31","slug":"5-deaths-tragic-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/03\/31\/5-deaths-tragic-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"5 deaths on a tragic Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two men lost their lives in a collision at about 06:00 on the corner of Mandela Drive and Samora Machel Street.<\/p>\n

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One of the vehicles involved in the collision on Samora Machel and Mandela Drive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In an unrelated incident shortly after 11:00, three people died near the Kranspoort Pass on the N11 in a head-on collision between a Toyota Avanza and a Ford Figo.<\/p>\n

According to the Mpumalanga Community Safety and Liaison Department four of the Avanza passengers were seriously injured and two people who were travelling in the Figo also had to be transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n

The incident caused a 2 hour delay on the busy road.<\/p>\n

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The accident scene in Kranspoort.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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At least five people died in Middelburg on Sunday, March 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":91870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[17311,17307,17308,17309,10010,12898,10333,17310],"class_list":["post-91867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-5-people-die-in-accidents-on-sunday","tag-accident-in-kranspoort","tag-head-on-collision-in-kranspoort","tag-how-many-people-died-in-kranspoort-collision","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-trusted-news","tag-two-die-in-accident-on-samora-machel-and-mandela-drive"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["5 people die in accidents on Sunday","accident in kranspoort","head on collision in kranspoort","how many people died in kranspoort collision","local news","middelburg news","trusted news","two die in accident on Samora Machel and Mandela Drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91867","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=91867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}