{"id":10230,"date":"2018-09-07T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/rear-end-collision-leaves-four-injured-on-the-n2-somerset-west-road-in-strand-western-cape\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T20:30:08","slug":"rear-end-collision-leaves-four-injured-on-the-n2-somerset-west-road-in-strand-western-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/rear-end-collision-leaves-four-injured-on-the-n2-somerset-west-road-in-strand-western-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"Rear-end collision leaves four injured on the N2 Somerset West Road in Strand, Western Cape."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/%5BSTRAND%5D%20%E2%80%93%20Rear-end%20collision%20leaves%20four%20injured.jpg\" style=\"width: 1366px; height: 1026px;\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Four people were injured this afternoon, three of them children, following a three-vehicle rear-end collision on the N2 Somerset West Road in Strand, Western Cape.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics arrived on the scene at 15h45 to find a taxi, light motor vehicle and light delivery vehicle in the middle of the road.&nbsp;<br \/>\nUpon closer inspection, paramedics discovered that a mother and her three children, aged between four and ten, had sustained minor to moderate injuries.<br \/>\nParamedics extricated the four from the vehicle and treated them for their injuries. Once treated, the four patients were transported to Mediclinic Vergelegen for further treatment.<br \/>\nLocal authorities were on the scene for further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Russel Meiring<br \/>\nCommunications Office<br \/>\nCorporate Communications<br \/>\nER24<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=35450&#038;page=Rear-end-collision-leaves-four-injured-on-the-N2-Somerset-West-Road-in-Strand-Western-Cape\" 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>Four people were injured this afternoon, three of them children, following a three-vehicle rear-end collision on the N2 Somerset West Road in Strand, Western Cape. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene at 15h45 to find a taxi, light motor vehicle and light delivery vehicle in the middle of the road.&nbsp; Upon closer inspection, paramedics discovered [&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":[3136,1446,1372,5854,6213,168,6212,4333,6214,2153,175,2345,1888,1327,5228,6215,310],"class_list":["post-10230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-accidents","tag-cape","tag-collision","tag-injured","tag-leaves","tag-n2","tag-news","tag-rearend","tag-road","tag-somerset","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news","tag-strand","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident","tag-west","tag-western","tag-western-cape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230","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=10230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}