{"id":7800,"date":"2018-01-23T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/nine-injured-after-multi-vehicle-collision-on-the-corners-of-longmarket-and-chapel-street-pietermaritzburg\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T19:00:11","slug":"nine-injured-after-multi-vehicle-collision-on-the-corners-of-longmarket-and-chapel-street-pietermaritzburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/nine-injured-after-multi-vehicle-collision-on-the-corners-of-longmarket-and-chapel-street-pietermaritzburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine injured after multi-vehicle collision on the corners of Longmarket and Chapel street Pietermaritzburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Nine people sustained injuries ranging from minor to moderate after a bus, a bakkie and a light motor vehicle collided on the corners of Longmarket and Chapel street in Pietermaritzburg CBD this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>An off-duty ER24 paramedic was traveling by vehicle when he came across the collision at approximately 17H45. Upon further assessment, he found a total of nine patients who sustained injuries ranging from minor to moderate.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle sustained minor injuries. The eight patients from the bakkie sustained injuries ranging from minor to moderate. Fortunately, the bus was not transporting any passengers.<\/p>\n<p>ER24, as well as another medical service on the scene, transported the patients to Mediclinic Pietermaritzburg and Northdale hospital for further medical care.<\/p>\n<p>The exact circumstances surrounding the incident were not yet known to our paramedics but police were on the scene for further investigations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/safety%20preventing%20crashes%20at%20intersection(2).jpg\" style=\"width: 500px;height: 564px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=32478&#038;page=Nine-injured-after-multi-vehicle-collision-on-the-corners-of-Longmarket-and-Chapel-street-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>Nine people sustained injuries ranging from minor to moderate after a bus, a bakkie and a light motor vehicle collided on the corners of Longmarket and Chapel street in Pietermaritzburg CBD this afternoon. An off-duty ER24 paramedic was traveling by vehicle when he came across the collision at approximately 17H45. Upon further assessment, he found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7801,"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-7800","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\/7800","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=7800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}