{"id":8379,"date":"2018-03-01T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-five-injured-off-old-darling-mamre-road-in-atlantis\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:30:12","slug":"taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-five-injured-off-old-darling-mamre-road-in-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-five-injured-off-old-darling-mamre-road-in-atlantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi crashes into tree leaving five injured off Old Darling Mamre Road in Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Five people were left injured this afternoon when a taxi crashed into a tree off Old Darling Mamre Road in Atlantis in the Western Cape.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics, along with Metro and Fire Services, arrived on the scene to find a taxi against a tree on the side of the road. Several people were found walking around on the scene while one woman was found lying trapped inside the front of the taxi.<br \/>\nMetro and Fire services had to use specialised equipment to free the woman from the vehicle.<br \/>\nOnce freed, paramedics found that four patients had sustained minor injuries while the entrapped patient had sustained serious injuries.&nbsp;<br \/>\nParamedics treated the patients and provided the seriously injured woman with pain-relief medication before they were transported to a nearby hospital for further treatment.<br \/>\nLocal 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=33842&#038;page=Taxi-crashes-into-tree-leaving-five-injured-off-Old-Darling-Mamre-Road-in-Atlantis\" 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>Five people were left injured this afternoon when a taxi crashed into a tree off Old Darling Mamre Road in Atlantis in the Western Cape. ER24 paramedics, along with Metro and Fire Services, arrived on the scene to find a taxi against a tree on the side of the road. Several people were found walking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8380,"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-8379","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\/8379","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=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}