{"id":97972,"date":"2019-06-29T20:49:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T18:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=97972"},"modified":"2019-07-01T11:53:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T09:53:52","slug":"trafficalert-r555-closed-seven-die-horrific-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/06\/29\/trafficalert-r555-closed-seven-die-horrific-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"#TrafficAlert: R555 closed, seven die in horrific crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven people have perished after a head on collision between a truck and a bakkie.<\/p>\n

The seven include the driver and six passengers of the single cab bakkie, which was pulling a trailer.<\/p>\n

This is the second accident on the Stoffberg road this evening. Another accident occurred between 17:00 and 18:00.<\/p>\n

It was later observed that a section of tar has been stripped from the road and poses a danger to vehicles travelling at high speed.<\/p>\n

Motorists are cautioned not to use the R555 until further notice.<\/p>\n

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The R555 (Stoffberg road) has been closed due to a fatal crash this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":11062,"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":[1025,12112,18615,10010,12898,15567,19125,19126,15946,10333],"class_list":["post-97972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-accident-on-r555","tag-accident-on-stoffberg-road","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-traffic","tag-r555-closed-after-fatal-crash","tag-seven-die-in-fatal-crash","tag-traffic-alert","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","Accident on R555","accident on stoffberg road","local news","middelburg news","middelburg traffic","R555 closed after fatal crash","seven die in fatal crash","traffic alert","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97972","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=97972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}