{"id":10069,"date":"2018-08-23T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-thirteen-injured-on-zwartkops-road-in-boughton-pietermaritzburg\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T09:00:05","slug":"taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-thirteen-injured-on-zwartkops-road-in-boughton-pietermaritzburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-thirteen-injured-on-zwartkops-road-in-boughton-pietermaritzburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi crashes into tree leaving thirteen injured on Zwartkops Road in Boughton, Pietermaritzburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/%5BBOUGHTON%5D%20%E2%80%93%20Taxi%20crashes%20into%20tree%20leaving%20thirteen%20injured.jpg\" style=\"width: 594px; height: 791px;\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Thirteen people were left injured this morning when a taxi crashed into a tree on Zwartkops Road in Boughton, Pietermaritzburg.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics, along with Fire and other services, arrived on the scene at 08:15 to find the taxi on the side of the road against a large tree. Several people were found either walking around on the scene or seated on the sidewalk. One woman was found lying trapped inside the vehicle.<br \/>\nFire Services had to use the jaws-of-life equipment to free the woman from the vehicle. Once freed, paramedics assessed the patients and found that thirteen people had sustained minor to moderate injuries.<br \/>\nParamedics treated the patients and thereafter transported them to Northdale, Edendale and Greys Provincial hospital for further care.<br \/>\nThe 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=35352&#038;page=Taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-thirteen-injured-on-Zwartkops-Road-in-Boughton-Pietermaritzburg\" 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>Thirteen people were left injured this morning when a taxi crashed into a tree on Zwartkops Road in Boughton, Pietermaritzburg. ER24 paramedics, along with Fire and other services, arrived on the scene at 08:15 to find the taxi on the side of the road against a large tree. Several people were found either walking around [&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":[6098,6095,1372,5692,168,524,4333,2153,175,1888,1327,5937,6096,6097],"class_list":["post-10069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-accidents","tag-boughton","tag-crashes","tag-injured","tag-leaving","tag-news","tag-pietermaritzburg","tag-road","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident","tag-thirteen","tag-tree","tag-zwartkops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069","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=10069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}