{"id":8619,"date":"2018-03-15T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T07:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/man-killed-in-collision-with-minibus-taxi-in-everest-heights-in-verulam\/"},"modified":"2018-03-15T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T07:15:12","slug":"man-killed-in-collision-with-minibus-taxi-in-everest-heights-in-verulam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/man-killed-in-collision-with-minibus-taxi-in-everest-heights-in-verulam\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in collision with minibus taxi in Everest Heights in Verulam."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A 50-year-old man was killed after he was run over by a taxi on Himalaya Drive in Everest Heights &#8211; Verulam last night.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 22:13 members of Reaction Unit South Africa was called out to the scene by residents requesting assistance for the critically injured man. Upon arrival he was found to have sustained an extensive head injury and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>It was established that the deceased was being dropped off at his residence by his employer who had stopped on the side of the road. As he stood in front of the Isuzu bakkie waiting to cross the road a Toyota Quantum taxi that was traveling in the same lane overtook the bakkie and ran over the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>The occupants of the taxi were not injured.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=33985&#038;page=Man-killed-in-collision-with-minibus-taxi-in-Everest-Heights-in-Verulam\" 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 50-year-old man was killed after he was run over by a taxi on Himalaya Drive in Everest Heights &#8211; Verulam last night. At approximately 22:13 members of Reaction Unit South Africa was called out to the scene by residents requesting assistance for the critically injured man. Upon arrival he was found to have sustained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8620,"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-8619","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\/8619","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=8619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}