{"id":94931,"date":"2019-06-04T08:41:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T06:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=94931"},"modified":"2019-06-04T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T11:12:57","slug":"fatalities-bus-accident-stoffberg-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/06\/04\/fatalities-bus-accident-stoffberg-road\/","title":{"rendered":"More fatalities after bus accident on Stoffberg road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media Spokesperson of Transport and Cummunity Safety Liaison, Mr Moeti Mmusi confirmed that commuters of a midibus were killed and injured when a truck rear-ended the midibus and went on to collide with another truck.<\/p>\n

18 passengers had to be transported to the Middelburg Provincial Hospital and two were killed in the collision.<\/p>\n

Police are busy with an investigation, to conclude what caused the accident.<\/p>\n

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Two people died yesterday evening in a collision between a bus and a truck on the R555 Stoffberg Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":85805,"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":[18617,12112,18615,1424,12454,10010,12898,10333,18616],"class_list":["post-94931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-2-die-and-18-injured-in-bus-accident","tag-accident-on-r555","tag-accident-on-stoffberg-road","tag-accidents","tag-accidents-in-middelburg","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-trusted-news","tag-two-die-in-bus-accident-on-stoffberg-road"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["2 die and 18 injured in bus accident","Accident on R555","accident on stoffberg road","accidents","Accidents in Middelburg","local news","middelburg news","trusted news","two die in bus accident on stoffberg road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94931","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=94931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}