{"id":8344,"date":"2018-02-28T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-veers-off-road-leaving-ten-children-injured-near-the-mariannhill-cemetery\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:45:09","slug":"taxi-veers-off-road-leaving-ten-children-injured-near-the-mariannhill-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-veers-off-road-leaving-ten-children-injured-near-the-mariannhill-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi veers off road leaving ten children injured near the Mariannhill Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Ten children were left injured this morning when the taxi they were travelling in veered off an un-named road near the Mariannhill Cemetery in Mariannhill, KwaZulu Natal.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene to find a taxi some distance off the road down an embankment. Several children were found walking around on the scene.<br \/>\nParamedics assessed the patients and found that ten children, aged between 5 and 7, had sustained only minor 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.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe 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=33830&#038;page=Taxi-veers-off-road-leaving-ten-children-injured-near-the-Mariannhill-Cemetery\" 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 children were left injured this morning when the taxi they were travelling in veered off an un-named road near the Mariannhill Cemetery in Mariannhill, KwaZulu Natal. ER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene to find a taxi some distance off the road down an embankment. Several children were found walking around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8345,"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-8344","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344","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=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}