{"id":9142,"date":"2018-04-26T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/five-injured-after-taxi-and-bus-collide\/"},"modified":"2018-04-26T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T20:00:10","slug":"five-injured-after-taxi-and-bus-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/five-injured-after-taxi-and-bus-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"Five injured after taxi and bus collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Five people sustained minor to moderate injuries after a taxi and a bus collided on the corners of Maraisburg road and Commando street in Maraisburg this evening.<br \/>\nWhen ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene just after 18H00, some of the patients were seated on the pavement while others were walking around on the scene.<br \/>\nUpon further assessment, paramedics found that five people from the taxi sustained minor to moderate injuries. The bus didn&rsquo;t have any passengers, and the bus driver didn&rsquo;t sustain any injuries.<br \/>\nER24, and another medical service on the scene, transported the patients to hospital for further medical care.<br \/>\nThe exact details surrounding the incident were not yet known to our paramedics, but local authorities were on the scene for further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Ineke van Huyssteen<br \/>\nER24 Spokesperson<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=34412&#038;page=Five-injured-after-taxi-and-bus-collide\" 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>Five people sustained minor to moderate injuries after a taxi and a bus collided on the corners of Maraisburg road and Commando street in Maraisburg this evening. When ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene just after 18H00, some of the patients were seated on the pavement while others were walking around on the scene. Upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9143,"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":[2150,2151,168,2153,175,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-9142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident","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\/9142","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=9142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}