{"id":183811,"date":"2024-11-03T01:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kuwadzana-accident-reckless-commuter-omnibus-driver-charged-with-culpable-homicide-as-death-toll-rises\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T01:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T23:01:19","slug":"zimbabwe-kuwadzana-accident-reckless-commuter-omnibus-driver-charged-with-culpable-homicide-as-death-toll-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kuwadzana-accident-reckless-commuter-omnibus-driver-charged-with-culpable-homicide-as-death-toll-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Kuwadzana Accident &#8211; &#8216;Reckless&#8217; Commuter Omnibus Driver Charged With Culpable Homicide As Death Toll Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A commuter omnibus driver has been charged with culpable homicide following a fatal road accident along Harare-Bulawayo road, at the intersection of First Street and Bulawayo Road on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The commuter omnibus collided with a fuel tanker after the driver disregarded the traffic lights and proceeded when he was supposed to stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">In an update, police said the death toll had risen to seven while others were injured and receiving treatment at Sally Mugabe Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The Minister of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411010075.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commuter omnibus driver has been charged with culpable homicide following a fatal road accident along Harare-Bulawayo road, at the intersection of First Street and Bulawayo Road on Thursday morning. The commuter omnibus collided with a fuel tanker after the driver disregarded the traffic lights and proceeded when he was supposed to stop. In an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[7264,258,256,7081,34442,28887,6974,7768,27021,32644,257,49072,13114,8688,254,11260,4686,421],"class_list":["post-183811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accident","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charged","tag-commuter","tag-culpable","tag-death","tag-driver","tag-homicide","tag-kuwadzana","tag-news","tag-omnibus","tag-reckless","tag-rises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-toll","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}