{"id":8593,"date":"2018-03-13T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-hit-and-killed-by-taxi-on-the-n12-in-alabama-outside-of-klerksdorp\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T19:15:12","slug":"pedestrian-hit-and-killed-by-taxi-on-the-n12-in-alabama-outside-of-klerksdorp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-hit-and-killed-by-taxi-on-the-n12-in-alabama-outside-of-klerksdorp\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian hit-and killed by taxi on the N12 in Alabama outside of Klerksdorp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A man, believed to be in his 20s, was killed this afternoon after he was hit by a taxi on the N12 in Alabama outside of Klerksdorp.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics, along with another service, arrived on the scene to find the man lying in the centre median. The taxi that hit the man was found parked a short distance away.<br \/>\nParamedics assessed the man and found that he had sustained numerous injuries, leaving him in a critical condition.<br \/>\nTreatment and advanced life support interventions were immediately initiated, in an effort to stabilize the patient&rsquo;s condition.<br \/>\nOnce treated, the man was transported, under advanced life support supervision, to Tshepong Hospital for urgent care.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, upon arrival, the man succumbed to his injuries and was declared dead.<br \/>\nThe driver of the taxi escaped injury.<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=33969&#038;page=Pedestrian-hit-and-killed-by-taxi-on-the-N12-in-Alabama-outside-of-Klerksdorp\" 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>A man, believed to be in his 20s, was killed this afternoon after he was hit by a taxi on the N12 in Alabama outside of Klerksdorp. ER24 paramedics, along with another service, arrived on the scene to find the man lying in the centre median. The taxi that hit the man was found parked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8594,"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-8593","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\/8593","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=8593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}