{"id":9608,"date":"2018-06-08T15:45:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-taxis-collide-near-carletonville-leaving-seven-children-injured\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:45:06","slug":"two-taxis-collide-near-carletonville-leaving-seven-children-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-taxis-collide-near-carletonville-leaving-seven-children-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Two taxis collide near Carletonville leaving seven children injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Seven children were left injured this morning following a collision between two taxis on Lang Street in Carletonville.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene shortly after 07h00 to find one taxi across the left-hand lane while another had come to a stop against a tree. Several children were found walking around on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics assessed the patients and found that seven children, aged between six and twelve, had sustained minor to moderate injuries. Fortunately, no serious injuries or fatalities were found.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the children had been on their way to school when the collision occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics treated the patients and thereafter transported them to a nearby hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities were on the scene for further investigations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=34798&#038;page=Two-taxis-collide-near-Carletonville-leaving-seven-children-injured\" 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>Seven children were left injured this morning following a collision between two taxis on Lang Street in Carletonville.&nbsp; ER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene shortly after 07h00 to find one taxi across the left-hand lane while another had come to a stop against a tree. Several children were found walking around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9609,"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":[168,2153,175,1888,1327,2168],"class_list":["post-9608","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","tag-taxis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608","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=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}