{"id":8240,"date":"2018-02-22T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-truck-leaving-eight-injured-at-intersection-in-maitlands-in-the-western-cape\/"},"modified":"2018-02-22T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T14:30:14","slug":"taxi-crashes-into-truck-leaving-eight-injured-at-intersection-in-maitlands-in-the-western-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-truck-leaving-eight-injured-at-intersection-in-maitlands-in-the-western-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi crashes into truck leaving eight injured at intersection in Maitlands in the Western Cape."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Eight people were left injured this morning when a taxi crashed into the side of a truck and trailer at the Royal and Van Wyk Road intersection in Maitlands in the Western Cape.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics, along with Metro and Life Healthcare, arrived on the scene to find the taxi and truck in the middle of the intersection. Several passengers from the taxi were found walking around on the scene.<br \/>\nParamedics assessed the patients and found that eight people had sustained injuries ranging from minor to moderate. Fortunately, no serious injuries or fatalities were found on the scene.<br \/>\nParamedics treated the patients and thereafter transported them to nearby hospitals for further treatment.<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 \/>\nER24 Spokesperson<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=33781&#038;page=Taxi-crashes-into-truck-leaving-eight-injured-at-intersection-in-Maitlands-in-the-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>Eight people were left injured this morning when a taxi crashed into the side of a truck and trailer at the Royal and Van Wyk Road intersection in Maitlands in the Western Cape. ER24 paramedics, along with Metro and Life Healthcare, arrived on the scene to find the taxi and truck in the middle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8241,"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":[168,2153,175,1888,1327,310],"class_list":["post-8240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-news","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident","tag-western-cape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240","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=8240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}