{"id":10195,"date":"2018-09-05T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T09:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-eight-injured-in-johannesburg\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T09:45:07","slug":"taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-eight-injured-in-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-eight-injured-in-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi crashes into tree leaving eight injured in Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Eight people were left injured this morning when the taxi they were travelling in crashed into a tree on Hendrik Potgieter Road in Florida, west of Johannesburg.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics, along with another service, arrived on the scene at 08h05 to find the taxi against the tree. The passengers had already climbed out of the vehicle and were found walking around on the scene.<br \/>\nParamedics assessed the patients and found that eight people had sustained minor to moderate injuries. Fortunately, no serious injuries or fatalities were found on the scene.<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=35426&#038;page=Taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-eight-injured-in-Johannesburg\" 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>Eight people were left injured this morning when the taxi they were travelling in crashed into a tree on Hendrik Potgieter Road in Florida, west of Johannesburg. ER24 paramedics, along with another service, arrived on the scene at 08h05 to find the taxi against the tree. The passengers had already climbed out of the vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10196,"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],"class_list":["post-10195","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195","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=10195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}