{"id":9624,"date":"2018-06-09T14:38:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driver-killed-one-injured-after-car-and-bus-collide-on-the-r304-in-joostenbergvlakte\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T12:39:53","slug":"driver-killed-one-injured-after-car-and-bus-collide-on-the-r304-in-joostenbergvlakte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driver-killed-one-injured-after-car-and-bus-collide-on-the-r304-in-joostenbergvlakte\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed, one injured after car and bus collide on the R304 in Joostenbergvlakte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The driver of a vehicle was killed and the passenger of a vehicle sustained serious injuries in a collision with a bus on the R304 in Joostenbergvlakte this morning.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 09h30, ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene and found that there was noting they could do to save the driver, a man believed to be in his 50s. He was unfortunately declared dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger of the vehicle, a man believed to be in his 30s, had to be extricated from the car by fire and rescue personnel on scene. ER24 paramedics later treated him and transported him to a nearby hospital for further medical care.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that not none of the passengers of the bus sustained any injuries in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The details surrounding this incident are not yet known but local authorities were on the scene for further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Annine Siddall<br \/>\nER24 Spokesperson<br \/>\n084 407 3724<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=34812&#038;page=Driver-killed-one-injured-after-car-and-bus-collide-on-the-R304-in-Joostenbergvlakte\" 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>The driver of a vehicle was killed and the passenger of a vehicle sustained serious injuries in a collision with a bus on the R304 in Joostenbergvlakte this morning. At approximately 09h30, ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene and found that there was noting they could do to save the driver, a man believed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9625,"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-9624","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\/9624","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=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}