{"id":12165,"date":"2013-12-03T06:37:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T06:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12165"},"modified":"2013-12-03T06:40:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T06:40:17","slug":"12-die-in-minibus-taxi-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12165","title":{"rendered":"14 die in minibus taxi collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/taxifares.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9094\" alt=\"taxifares\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/taxifares.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/taxifares.jpg 299w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/taxifares-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 85vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>The Klerksdorp Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide after fourteen people died in a head collision between two minibus taxis yesterday, 01 December 2013 at 19:30, near Klerksdorp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is alleged that a Toyota HI-Ace minibus was travelling from Taung to Johannesburg, carrying fifteen passengers and a Toyota Quantum minibus with a driver only was travelling to Wolmaransstad collided.\u00a0 According to the information, the Quantum overtook a truck and it collided head on with the Toyota Hi-Ace.\u00a0 Twelve people including both drivers of the minibus taxis and three children died on the scene.\u00a0 The other three passengers with serious injuries were rushed to Tshepong\u00a0Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sapa reports that\u00a0North West public safety MEC Nono Maloyi urged motorists to exercise patience and to comply with traffic laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Overtaking in an unsafe area is regarded as negligent driving and this leads to accidents. Losing 14 at once is too much and we are not going to allow that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maloyi said reckless drivers would be dealt with. He also advised drivers to keep their lights on, especially when it rained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He sent condolences to the families and friends of those who died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Klerksdorp Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide after fourteen people died in a head collision between two minibus taxis yesterday, 01 December 2013 at 19:30, near Klerksdorp. It is alleged that a Toyota HI-Ace minibus was travelling from Taung to Johannesburg, carrying fifteen passengers and a Toyota Quantum minibus with a driver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;14 die in minibus taxi collision&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7556,7695,7694,7520],"class_list":["post-12165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-collision","tag-died","tag-klerksdorp","tag-minibus-taxi"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/taxifares.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12168,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165\/revisions\/12168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}