{"id":99476,"date":"2019-07-30T13:48:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T11:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=99476"},"modified":"2019-07-31T12:34:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T10:34:29","slug":"trafficalert-accident-n4-westbound-lanes-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/07\/30\/trafficalert-accident-n4-westbound-lanes-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"#TrafficAlert – Accident on N4, westbound lanes closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The accident took place when a bakkie hauling a trailer with another vehicle on it, lost control and overturned.<\/p>\n

The vehicle was travelling in eMalahleni’s direction and occurred a few kilometres before the Middelburg Toll Plaza.<\/p>\n

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One of the vehicle’s occupants was taken to hospital by ambulance after sustaining injuries, but fortunately there were no fatalities.<\/p>\n

Traffic has ground to a halt since motorists are forced to drive on the grass island between lanes. Motorists are urged to proceed with caution.<\/p>\n

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Emergency response personnel had to close two lanes of the N4 as they are currently trying to recover vehicles involved in an accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":99482,"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":[902,10010,12898,15567,19674,13108,19675,2023,19673,8619,10333,19676],"class_list":["post-99476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident-on-n4","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-traffic","tag-n4-closed-after-accident","tag-n4-traffic","tag-one-injured-in-n4-accident","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-altert","tag-traffic-update","tag-trusted-news","tag-westbound-lanes-closed-on-n4"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Accident on N4","local news","middelburg news","middelburg traffic","N4 closed after accident","N4 traffic","one injured in N4 accident","traffic","traffic altert","traffic update","trusted news","westbound lanes closed on n4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99476","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=99476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}