{"id":9189,"date":"2018-04-29T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/bus-rear-end-truck-leaving-man-critical-on-the-n1-highway-after-the-allendale-offramp-in-midrand\/"},"modified":"2018-04-29T22:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T20:00:15","slug":"bus-rear-end-truck-leaving-man-critical-on-the-n1-highway-after-the-allendale-offramp-in-midrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/bus-rear-end-truck-leaving-man-critical-on-the-n1-highway-after-the-allendale-offramp-in-midrand\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus rear-end truck leaving man critical on the N1 highway after the Allendale Offramp in Midrand."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A man was left critically injured this morning when a bus rear-ended a truck on the N1 highway after the Allendale Offramp in Midrand.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics arrived on the scene shortly after 10h00 and found another service already in attendance.<br \/>\nUpon closer inspection, paramedics found the driver lying in the bus in a critical condition.<br \/>\nThe man was extricated, treated for his injuries and provided with advanced life support interventions. Once treated, the man was airlifted by a private medical helicopter to a nearby hospital for urgent treatment.<br \/>\nThe driver of the truck was assessed and found to have sustained minor injuries. He was treated and transported by another service to hospital.<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=34435&#038;page=Bus-rear-end-truck-leaving-man-critical-on-the-N1-highway-after-the-Allendale-Offramp-in-Midrand\" 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 was left critically injured this morning when a bus rear-ended a truck on the N1 highway after the Allendale Offramp in Midrand. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene shortly after 10h00 and found another service already in attendance. Upon closer inspection, paramedics found the driver lying in the bus in a critical condition. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9190,"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],"class_list":["post-9189","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189","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=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}