{"id":10264,"date":"2018-09-11T08:15:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-21-children-injured-in-isipingo-kzn\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:15:06","slug":"taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-21-children-injured-in-isipingo-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-21-children-injured-in-isipingo-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi crashes into tree leaving 21 children injured in Isipingo, KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/%5BISIPINGO%5D%20%E2%80%93%20Taxi%20crashes%20into%20tree%20leaving%2021%20children%20injured_.png\" style=\"width: 738px; height: 553px;\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>21 children were left injured this morning when a taxi crashed into a tree on Ramadas Road in Isipingo, KwaZulu Natal.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene at 07h05 to find a taxi on the side of the road against a tree. Several children were found either seated on the side of the road or seated in other vehicles.<br \/>\nParamedics assessed the patients and found that 21 children, believed to be aged 9 and 12, had sustained minor to moderate injuries. Fortunately, no serious injuries or fatalities were found on the scene.<br \/>\nThe children were treated for their injuries and were thereafter transported by various services to nearby hospitals for further treatment.<br \/>\nThe driver of the taxi did not sustain any injuries.<br \/>\nThe details surrounding this incident are not yet known but local 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=35473&#038;page=Taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-21-children-injured-in-Isipingo-KZN\" 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>21 children were left injured this morning when a taxi crashed into a tree on Ramadas Road in Isipingo, KwaZulu Natal. ER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene at 07h05 to find a taxi on the side of the road against a tree. Several children were found either seated on the side [&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":[4242,6095,1372,1592,66,2152,5692,168,2153,175,1888,1327,6096],"class_list":["post-10264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-accidents","tag-children","tag-crashes","tag-injured","tag-isipingo","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn","tag-leaving","tag-news","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264","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=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}