{"id":8743,"date":"2018-03-22T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/negligent-driver-reportedly-forced-vehicle-from-the-road-at-verulam\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T12:00:12","slug":"negligent-driver-reportedly-forced-vehicle-from-the-road-at-verulam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/negligent-driver-reportedly-forced-vehicle-from-the-road-at-verulam\/","title":{"rendered":"Negligent driver reportedly forced vehicle from the road at Verulam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A 52-year-old man suffered injuries after a minibus taxi forced him off the road in Redcliffe this evening (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p>Reaction Unit South Africa were called out to the scene at the corner of Summit Drive &amp; Cliff-view Road at approx 19:30. Upon arrival Reaction Officers found an overturned white Izuzu Bakkie lying in ditch alongside the road.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics were summoned to the scene to attend to the injured driver. He was stabilized on scene &amp; transported to Osindisweni Hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the driver, he was forced off the road by a speeding white Toyota Quantum taxi. The taxi fled the scene.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A negligent driver reportedly forced vehicle from the road at Verulam <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lItLsBRqVE\">https:\/\/t.co\/lItLsBRqVE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArriveAlive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ArriveAlive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1FEmIg1cIA\">pic.twitter.com\/1FEmIg1cIA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_ArriveAlive\/status\/976757972629114881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 22, 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=34049&#038;page=Negligent-driver-reportedly-forced-vehicle-from-the-road-at-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 52-year-old man suffered injuries after a minibus taxi forced him off the road in Redcliffe this evening (Wednesday). Reaction Unit South Africa were called out to the scene at the corner of Summit Drive &amp; Cliff-view Road at approx 19:30. Upon arrival Reaction Officers found an overturned white Izuzu Bakkie lying in ditch alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8744,"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-8743","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\/8743","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=8743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}