{"id":10350,"date":"2018-09-21T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/bus-overturns-leaving-ten-dead-34-injured-in-polokwane\/"},"modified":"2018-09-21T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T08:00:11","slug":"bus-overturns-leaving-ten-dead-34-injured-in-polokwane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/bus-overturns-leaving-ten-dead-34-injured-in-polokwane\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus overturns leaving ten dead, 34 injured in Polokwane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Ten people have been killed and 34 others injured this morning when a bus overturned on the N1 southbound highway, approximately 20km outside of Polokwane.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics, along with several other services, arrived on the scene to find a large bus lying on its side on the side of the road. Numerous people were found lying scattered around the vehicle.<br \/>\nParamedics immediately set up a triage area and began to secure the scene.<br \/>\nUpon assessment, paramedics discovered that ten people had sustained numerous, fatal injuries. Nothing could be done for them and they were declared dead on the scene.<br \/>\n34 other patients were assessed. Five people had sustained critical injuries while 29 others had sustained minor to moderate injuries.<br \/>\nParamedics treated the patients and provided the critically injured with advanced life support interventions.<br \/>\nOnce treated, the patients were transported to various hospitals for urgent 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=35533&#038;page=Bus-overturns-leaving-ten-dead-34-injured-in-Polokwane\" 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>Ten people have been killed and 34 others injured this morning when a bus overturned on the N1 southbound highway, approximately 20km outside of Polokwane. ER24 paramedics, along with several other services, arrived on the scene to find a large bus lying on its side on the side of the road. Numerous people were found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10351,"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":[2150,2151,168,2153,175],"class_list":["post-10350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident","tag-news","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350","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=10350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}