{"id":9793,"date":"2018-07-03T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-concrete-pillar-leaving-nineteen-injured-on-the-dinkleman-highway-in-kwadabeka-kwazulu-natal\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T21:00:11","slug":"taxi-crashes-into-concrete-pillar-leaving-nineteen-injured-on-the-dinkleman-highway-in-kwadabeka-kwazulu-natal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crashes-into-concrete-pillar-leaving-nineteen-injured-on-the-dinkleman-highway-in-kwadabeka-kwazulu-natal\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi crashes into concrete pillar leaving nineteen injured on the Dinkleman Highway in Kwadabeka, KwaZulu Natal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Nineteen people were left injured this evening when a taxi crashed into a concrete pillar on the Dinkleman Highway in Kwadabeka, KwaZulu Natal.<br \/>\nER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene at approximately 19h20 to find a taxi smashed against a concrete pillar. The passengers had already climbed out of the taxi and were found walking around on the scene.<br \/>\nParamedics assessed the patients and found that 19 people had sustained injuries ranging from minor to serious.<br \/>\nParamedics treated the patients and provided the seriously injured with pain-relief medication. Once treated, the patients were transported to nearby hospitals for further treatment.<br \/>\nThe details surrounding this incident are not yet known but local authorities were on the scene for further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Russel Meiring<br \/>\nCommunications Office<br \/>\nCorporate Communications<br \/>\nER24<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=34998&#038;page=Taxi-crashes-into-concrete-pillar-leaving-nineteen-injured-on-the-Dinkleman-Highway-in-Kwadabeka-KwaZulu-Natal\" 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>Nineteen people were left injured this evening when a taxi crashed into a concrete pillar on the Dinkleman Highway in Kwadabeka, KwaZulu Natal. ER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived on the scene at approximately 19h20 to find a taxi smashed against a concrete pillar. The passengers had already climbed out of the taxi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9794,"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-9793","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\/9793","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=9793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}