{"id":8024,"date":"2018-02-07T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-taxi-and-a-car-collided-in-newclare-randburg-leaving-24-injured-including-children\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T08:45:09","slug":"a-taxi-and-a-car-collided-in-newclare-randburg-leaving-24-injured-including-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-taxi-and-a-car-collided-in-newclare-randburg-leaving-24-injured-including-children\/","title":{"rendered":"A taxi and a car collided in Newclare, Randburg, leaving 24 injured, including children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four people have been injured this morning, including twenty-two children, when a taxi and light motor vehicle collided on Maraisburg Road in Newclare, west of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>ER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene to find a taxi in the middle of the road while a light motor vehicle was found on the pavement between two trees.<\/p>\n<p>Community and CPF members had already begun to extricate the children from the taxi.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics assessed the patients and found that two adults from the light motor vehicle and one child from the taxi had sustained serious injuries. Twenty-one other children from the taxi had sustained minor to moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics treated the patients and provided pain-relief medication to the seriously injured before they were transported to various private and provincial hospitals for further care.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities were on the scene for further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>ER24 would like to thank the CPF and community members who assisted the children on the scene.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=4&#038;i=33631&#038;page=A-taxi-and-a-car-collided-in-Newclare-Randburg-leaving-24-injured-including-children\" 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>Twenty-four people have been injured this morning, including twenty-two children, when a taxi and light motor vehicle collided on Maraisburg Road in Newclare, west of Johannesburg. ER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene to find a taxi in the middle of the road while a light motor vehicle was found on the [&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":[168,2153,175,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-8024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/8024","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=8024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}