{"id":98759,"date":"2019-07-15T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T06:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=98759"},"modified":"2019-07-15T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T10:01:09","slug":"trafficalert-one-dies-early-morning-collision-r555-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/07\/15\/trafficalert-one-dies-early-morning-collision-r555-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"#TrafficAlert: One dies in early morning collision, R555 closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The accident took place at around 05:25 between a Toyota Hilux and an Isuzu.<\/p>\n

A passenger in the Isuzu was killed in the collision and the drivers of both vehicles were rushed to Life Midmed Hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n

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The road remains closed as emergency response personnel are trying to recover the deceased from the wreckage.<\/p>\n

Motorists are urged to make use of alternative routes until the road is open.<\/p>\n

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One person has died and two were transported to hospital early this morning following a head on collision on the R555 (Old Witbank road).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":98762,"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":[19360,1424,12454,10010,12898,19363,19361,8619,10333,19362],"class_list":["post-98759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident-on-witbank-road","tag-accidents","tag-accidents-in-middelburg","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-one-dies-in-early-morning-crash-on-witbank-road","tag-r555-closed-after-accidents","tag-traffic-update","tag-trusted-news","tag-witbank-road-closed-after-accident"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident on witbank road","accidents","Accidents in Middelburg","local news","middelburg news","one dies in early morning crash on witbank road","R555 closed after accidents","traffic update","trusted news","witbank road closed after accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98759","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=98759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}