{"id":187438,"date":"2024-12-28T13:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T11:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-77-deaths-401-injuries-recorded-in-festive-season-road-traffic-accidents-police\/"},"modified":"2024-12-28T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T11:56:47","slug":"zimbabwe-77-deaths-401-injuries-recorded-in-festive-season-road-traffic-accidents-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-77-deaths-401-injuries-recorded-in-festive-season-road-traffic-accidents-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: 77 Deaths, 401 Injuries Recorded in Festive Season Road Traffic Accidents &#8211; Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A total of 77 people lost their lives in 1,211 road accidents that occurred between December 15 and 26, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">According to the latest statistics released by the police, 401 people were injured during the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">While the number of accidents decreased slightly from 1,454 recorded during the same time last year, the number of fatalities and injuries showed an increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The number of deaths rose by six, from 71 in December 2023 to 77 this year, while the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412280043.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 total of 77 people lost their lives in 1,211 road accidents that occurred between December 15 and 26, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has said. According to the latest statistics released by the police, 401 people were injured during the same period. While the number of accidents decreased slightly from 1,454 recorded during the [&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":[8599,258,256,8601,17549,14893,257,662,10499,7414,8098,254,9527,4686,421],"class_list":["post-187438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accidents","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deaths","tag-festive","tag-injuries","tag-news","tag-police","tag-recorded","tag-road","tag-season","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traffic","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187438","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=187438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187438\/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=187438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}