{"id":108787,"date":"2016-01-12T23:36:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=108787"},"modified":"2016-01-13T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:58:08","slug":"cctv-footage-shows-crazy-taxi-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/108787\/cctv-footage-shows-crazy-taxi-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"CCTV footage shows crazy SA taxi crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new video has emerged showing a minibus taxi narrowly avoiding a truck, before smashing into a Toyota Tazz, parked at a petrol station.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage taken from the petrol station shows how the taxi <span class=\"st\">driver loses control of his vehicle after an apparent brake failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The minibus slams into a parked Toyota, before the driver climbs out the window and brings the taxi to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that nobody was seriously injured in the accident which is said to have taken place in Phoenix, north of Durban.<\/p>\n<p>The footage comes after Transport Minister Dipuo Peters announced on Monday that fatal road traffic accidents increased by 11% over the festive period\u00a0\u2013\u00a0between 1 December 2015 to 11 January 2016\u00a0\u2013 to 1,387.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that there were 220 more deaths over that period, up by 14% from the prior festive season, to 1,755 people killed.<\/p>\n<p>Small motor vehicles accounted for 47.9% of total crashes, followed by light vehicles at 22.7%, mini buses at 10.1%, and trucks at 4.1%.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VF6YgdPbMEI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on taxis in SA<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/106469\/sa-minibus-taxis-are-going-cashless\/\">SA minibus taxis are going cashless<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/100688\/sa-taxis-are-better-at-driving-than-you-expert\/\">SA taxis are better at driving than you: expert<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/89002\/watch-joburg-taxis-dice-with-oncoming-traffic\/\">Watch: Joburg taxis dice with oncoming traffic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video has emerged showing a minibus taxi narrowly avoiding a truck, before smashing into a Toyota Tazz, parked at a petrol station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":89012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-108787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108893,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108787\/revisions\/108893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}