{"id":10000,"date":"2018-08-08T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/small-bus-rear-ends-truck-leaving-three-dead-approximately-20-injured\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:00:05","slug":"small-bus-rear-ends-truck-leaving-three-dead-approximately-20-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/small-bus-rear-ends-truck-leaving-three-dead-approximately-20-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Small bus rear-ends truck leaving three dead, approximately 20 injured."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/%5BOGIES%5D%20%E2%80%93%20Small%20bus%20rear-ends%20truck%20leaving%20three%20dead%2C%20approximately%2020%20injured_(1).png\" style=\"width: 476px; height: 636px;\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Three people were killed and approximately 20 others injured this morning when a small bus rear-ended a truck on the N12 highway near the Khutala offramp in Ogies, Mpumalanga.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene at 07h00 to find the bus and truck in the left-hand lane of the road. Several people were found outside the vehicle while four others were found trapped inside the bus.<br \/>\nParamedics assessed the patients and found that three of the entrapped patients had sustained numerous injuries and showed no signs of life. Unfortunately, nothing could be done for them and they were declared dead.<br \/>\nRescue services had to use specialized rescue tools to free the fourth entrapped patients. Once freed, paramedics assessed the patients and found that approximately 20 people had sustained minor to serious injuries.<br \/>\nThe patients were treated for their injuries and were thereafter transported to nearby hospitals for further treatment.<br \/>\nThe details surrounding this incident are not yet known but local authorities were on the scene for further investigations.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=35255&#038;page=Small-bus-rear-ends-truck-leaving-three-dead-approximately-20-injured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4522\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today &#8211; Accidents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were killed and approximately 20 others injured this morning when a small bus rear-ended a truck on the N12 highway near the Khutala offramp in Ogies, Mpumalanga. ER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene at 07h00 to find the bus and truck in the left-hand lane of the road. Several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[5945,2150,2151,5766,1372,5692,313,168,5765,5278,2153,175,4611],"class_list":["post-10000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-accidents","tag-approximately","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident","tag-dead","tag-injured","tag-leaving","tag-mpumalanga","tag-news","tag-rearends","tag-small","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}