{"id":8985,"date":"2018-04-09T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashed-into-lamp-pole-leaving-three-injured-on-oxford-road-in-houghton-johannesburg\/"},"modified":"2018-04-09T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:45:23","slug":"taxi-crashed-into-lamp-pole-leaving-three-injured-on-oxford-road-in-houghton-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashed-into-lamp-pole-leaving-three-injured-on-oxford-road-in-houghton-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi crashed into lamp pole leaving three injured on Oxford Road in Houghton, Johannesburg."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Three people were injured this evening, two of them critically, when a taxi crashed into a lamp pole on Oxford Road in Houghton, Johannesburg.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene to find the taxi on the side of the road against a lamp post. A man and woman were found trapped inside the taxi while a third patient was found walking around on the scene.<br \/>\nRescue Services had to use various extrication equipment to free the two patients from the taxi. Once freed, paramedics assessed the two and found that they were in a critical condition. The patient found walking around had sustained only minor injuries<br \/>\nParamedics treated the patients and provided the two critically injured with advanced life support interventions.<br \/>\nOnce treated, one of the critically injured patients was airlifted by the ER24 Oneplan Helicopter to a nearby hospital for urgent treatment. The two other patients were transported by ambulance.<br \/>\nThe exact cause of the collision is not yet known but local 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=34229&#038;page=Taxi-crashed-into-lamp-pole-leaving-three-injured-on-Oxford-Road-in-Houghton-Johannesburg\" 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>Three people were injured this evening, two of them critically, when a taxi crashed into a lamp pole on Oxford Road in Houghton, Johannesburg. ER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene to find the taxi on the side of the road against a lamp post. A man and woman were found trapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8986,"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-8985","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\/8985","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=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}