{"id":10041,"date":"2018-08-20T17:45:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T15:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/sixteen-children-injured-in-taxi-rollover\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T15:45:06","slug":"sixteen-children-injured-in-taxi-rollover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/sixteen-children-injured-in-taxi-rollover\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen children injured in taxi rollover."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Sixteen children were left injured this morning following a taxi rollover on the N2 Highway near the R300 in Mitchells Plain in the Western Cape.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics arrived on the scene to find the taxi upright in the centre median. Metro services were already in attendance treating on of the patients.<br \/>\nUpon closer inspection, paramedics found that one girl had sustained numerous injuries and was in a critical condition. It is understood that the girl was found beneath the taxi and shortly after pulled away by the local authorities.<br \/>\n15 other patients were assessed and found to have sustained minor to serious injuries.<br \/>\nThe patients were treated for their injuries and were thereafter transported by ER24 and Metro Services to nearby hospitals.<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=35328&#038;page=Sixteen-children-injured-in-taxi-rollover\" 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>Sixteen children were left injured this morning following a taxi rollover on the N2 Highway near the R300 in Mitchells Plain in the Western Cape. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene to find the taxi upright in the centre median. Metro services were already in attendance treating on of the patients. Upon closer inspection, paramedics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10042,"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":[168,2153,175,1888,1327,310],"class_list":["post-10041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-news","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident","tag-western-cape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041","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=10041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}