{"id":98782,"date":"2019-07-15T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T08:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=98782"},"modified":"2019-07-15T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:23:37","slug":"update-one-dies-early-morning-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/07\/15\/update-one-dies-early-morning-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: One more dies in early morning crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

The accident took place on the R555 (old Witbank Road) at around 05:25, when a Toyota Hilux and Isuzu bakkie collided head on.<\/p>\n

One of the passengers from the Isuzu was killed upon impact and the two drivers were rushed to Life Midmed Hospital in critical condition.
\nIt was later confirmed that one of the two drivers has succumbed to their injuries in hospital.<\/p>\n

This brings the death toll to fourteen fatalities in four days.<\/p>\n

The road had to be closed as rescuers recovered the deceased’s body from one of the wreckages.<\/p>\n

\u2022The R555 is now open for use.<\/p>\n

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Another passenger who was involved in this morning’s crash has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":98760,"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":[12117,1424,12454,19377,10010,12898,19378,7496,10333,19376],"class_list":["post-98782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident-on-old-witbank-road","tag-accidents","tag-accidents-in-middelburg","tag-another-fatality-reported-in-witbank-road-crash","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-r555-witbank-road-open","tag-road-fatalities","tag-trusted-news","tag-two-killed-in-accident-on-witbank-road"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident on old witbank road","accidents","Accidents in Middelburg","another fatality reported in witbank road crash","local news","middelburg news","R555 Witbank road open","road fatalities","trusted news","two killed in accident on Witbank road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98782","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=98782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}