{"id":9327,"date":"2018-05-12T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/approximately-15-to-20-people-injured-in-taxi-collision-on-the-r55-in-olievenhoutbosch\/"},"modified":"2018-05-12T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T15:00:12","slug":"approximately-15-to-20-people-injured-in-taxi-collision-on-the-r55-in-olievenhoutbosch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/approximately-15-to-20-people-injured-in-taxi-collision-on-the-r55-in-olievenhoutbosch\/","title":{"rendered":"Approximately 15 to 20 people injured in taxi collision on the R55 in Olievenhoutbosch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Approximately 15 to 20 people sustained serious injuries after a taxi collided head-on with a SUV on the R55 in Olievenhoutbosch this morning.<\/p>\n<p>ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene around 10h17 and found that a man was still entrapped in the taxi. Various emergency services were on scene treating the patients at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Two children, believed to be a 2-year-old and 1-year-old, were among those who were injured in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>ER24 treated and transported the 2-year-old child, who was in a critical condition, to a nearby hospital for further medical care.<\/p>\n<p>The patients were transported to approximately four different hospitals in the area by the different emergency services on scene.<\/p>\n<p>The exact circumstances surrounding the incident were not yet known to our paramedics but local authorities were on the scene for investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Annine Siddall<br \/>\nER24 Spokesperson<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=34549&#038;page=Approximately-15-to-20-people-injured-in-taxi-collision-on-the-R55-in-Olievenhoutbosch\" 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>Approximately 15 to 20 people sustained serious injuries after a taxi collided head-on with a SUV on the R55 in Olievenhoutbosch this morning. ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene around 10h17 and found that a man was still entrapped in the taxi. Various emergency services were on scene treating the patients at the time. Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9328,"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-9327","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\/9327","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=9327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}