{"id":9506,"date":"2018-05-27T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/man-seriously-injured-after-vehicle-and-taxi-collides-in-vereeniging\/"},"modified":"2018-05-27T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T11:00:09","slug":"man-seriously-injured-after-vehicle-and-taxi-collides-in-vereeniging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/man-seriously-injured-after-vehicle-and-taxi-collides-in-vereeniging\/","title":{"rendered":"Man seriously injured after vehicle and taxi collides in Vereeniging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A 26-year-old male sustained serious injuries in a collision between a vehicle and a taxi between Boy Louw street and the entrance to Steelpark in Vereeniging this morning.<br \/>\nWhen ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene shortly before 07H00, they found a man entrapped in the vehicle and he had to be extricated. Upon further assessment, he was found to be in a serious condition.<br \/>\nER24 transported the man to hospital for further medical care.<br \/>\nA patient from the taxi sustained minor injuries and was transported to hospital by the provincial EMS.<br \/>\nThe exact circumstances surrounding the incident were not known to our paramedics, but police 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=34693&#038;page=Man-seriously-injured-after-vehicle-and-taxi-collides-in-Vereeniging\" 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 26-year-old male sustained serious injuries in a collision between a vehicle and a taxi between Boy Louw street and the entrance to Steelpark in Vereeniging this morning. When ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene shortly before 07H00, they found a man entrapped in the vehicle and he had to be extricated. Upon further assessment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9507,"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-9506","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\/9506","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=9506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}