{"id":93471,"date":"2019-05-02T11:08:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T09:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=93471"},"modified":"2019-05-03T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T05:54:56","slug":"collision-taxi-truck-claims-one-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/05\/02\/collision-taxi-truck-claims-one-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision between taxi and truck claims one life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spokesperson for the Department of Safety, Security and Liaison, Mr Moeti Mmusi, said that an investigation is underway but it\u2019s alleged that a taxi tried to overtake a truck.<\/p>\n

The driver saw an oncoming car and tried to revert back into the lane and then collided with the side of the truck.<\/p>\n

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The taxi was occupied by three people, one passenger died in the accident but no other injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n

The accident caused a delay in traffic on the Loskop road but is now open for use.<\/p>\n

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An accident that led to the fatality of one person occurred near the Doornkop area on the N11 this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":93473,"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":[17919,17923,1424,10010,12898,17922,17921,17924,7496,17920,10333],"class_list":["post-93471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident-in-doornkop","tag-accident-on-n11-loskop-road","tag-accidents","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-n11-loskop-road","tag-one-dies-in-taxi-collision-on-n11","tag-police-investigate-accident","tag-road-fatalities","tag-taxi-accident-in-doornkop","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident in doornkop","accident on N11 loskop road","accidents","local news","middelburg news","N11 Loskop road","one dies in taxi collision on N11","police investigate accident","road fatalities","taxi accident in doornkop","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93471","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=93471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}