{"id":8404,"date":"2018-03-02T14:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T12:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-taxi-lost-control-and-went-off-the-road-hitting-a-wall-on-the-r55-south-before-allandale-road\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T12:15:31","slug":"a-taxi-lost-control-and-went-off-the-road-hitting-a-wall-on-the-r55-south-before-allandale-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-taxi-lost-control-and-went-off-the-road-hitting-a-wall-on-the-r55-south-before-allandale-road\/","title":{"rendered":"A Taxi lost control and went off the road hitting a wall on the R55 south before Allandale Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>At approximately 07:47 am (Friday, 3rd&nbsp;March 2018) Netcare 911 responded to an accident on the R55 south before Allandale Road.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, paramedics attended to 15 passengers, one with severe injuries. It is alleged that the Taxi lost control and went off the road hitting a wall due to its brakes failing. They were treated on scene before being transported to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Metro was on scene investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Also view <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Taxi lost control and went off the road hitting a wall on the R55 south before Allandale Road  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VqQR8mvqYu\">https:\/\/t.co\/VqQR8mvqYu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArriveAlive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ArriveAlive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Netcare911_sa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Netcare911_sa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tT53pwKFYV\">pic.twitter.com\/tT53pwKFYV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_ArriveAlive\/status\/969500596301639680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=33848&#038;page=A-Taxi-lost-control-and-went-off-the-road-hitting-a-wall-on-the-R55-south-before-Allandale-Road\" 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>At approximately 07:47 am (Friday, 3rd&nbsp;March 2018) Netcare 911 responded to an accident on the R55 south before Allandale Road. On arrival, paramedics attended to 15 passengers, one with severe injuries. It is alleged that the Taxi lost control and went off the road hitting a wall due to its brakes failing. They were treated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8405,"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-8404","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\/8404","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=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}