{"id":8951,"date":"2013-08-12T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T09:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2013-08-12T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T09:02:01","slug":"maintenance-worker-dead-after-driving-his-bakkie-into-table-bay-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8951","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance worker dead after driving his bakkie into Table Bay harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8952\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/table_bay_harbour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8952\" alt=\"Table Bay Harbour in Cape Town\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/table_bay_harbour-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/table_bay_harbour-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/table_bay_harbour-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/table_bay_harbour-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Table Bay Harbour in Cape Town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A maintenance worker at the V&amp;A Waterfront in Cape Town was killed when the bakkie he was driving went over the East Pier into Table Bay harbour, Beeld reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger managed to get out of the vehicle and a helicopter pilot subsequently smashed a window to free the driver, but once ashore he was confirmed dead by paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>National Sea Rescue Institute Table Bay station commander, Pat van Eyssen, said harbour authorities had informed the Table Bay volunteer sea rescue duty crew of the accident, and a rescue craft had hastened to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger was uninjured, but he was treated for shock by paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the accident was unknown, but police would open an inquest docket, van Eyssen said. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A maintenance worker at the V&amp;A Waterfront in Cape Town was killed when the bakkie he was driving went over the East Pier into Table Bay harbour, Beeld reported on Monday. A passenger managed to get out of the vehicle and a helicopter pilot subsequently smashed a window to free the driver, but once ashore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maintenance worker dead after driving his bakkie into Table Bay harbour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3780,4168,5021,5022],"class_list":["post-8951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-accident","tag-bakkie","tag-table-bay-harbour","tag-va-waterfront"],"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\/table_bay_harbour.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951","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=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8956,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions\/8956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}