{"id":117384,"date":"2016-03-18T10:37:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T08:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=117384"},"modified":"2016-03-18T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T08:37:05","slug":"watch-taxi-stunt-goes-horribly-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/117384\/watch-taxi-stunt-goes-horribly-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: taxi stunt goes horribly wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new video has emerged on YouTube showing a taxi rolling onto its side with passengers still hanging<span class=\"st\"> out of\u00a0the\u00a0window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The footage shows a number of taxis driving recklessly on a football pitch with passengers hanging out of windows and the boot of the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>One of the vehicles tries to spin out of reverse, but ends up on its side, before spectators rush to flip it back onto its wheels again to loud cheering.<\/p>\n<p>South African minibus taxi industry is believed to be serviced by as many as 300,000 vehicles, transporting over 15-million commuters daily.<\/p>\n<p>As such, the transport minister recently noted that taxis are one of the biggest causes of road deaths in the country. Fatal road traffic accidents increased by 11% between 1 December 2015 to 11 January 2016 \u2013 to 1,387, with minibuses accounting for 10.1% of all accidents.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with News24 in October, Eugene Herbert from driver safety company, Masterdrive, said that the majority of minibus taxi drivers in South Africa are better drivers than general road users.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert inferred that taxi drivers were made to drive cars that were mostly unroadworthy everyday. He stressed that they weren\u2019t necessarily safer drivers; however, he called for a mind shift when it comes to using the road in the country.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z2EyZ24is-Y\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Videos on BusinessTech<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/116998\/watch-sa-police-officer-assaulting-motorist\/\">Watch: SA police officer assaulting motorist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/113692\/watch-man-followed-home-from-or-tambo-and-robbed-at-gunpoint\/\">Watch: Man followed home from OR Tambo and robbed at gunpoint<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/108787\/cctv-footage-shows-crazy-taxi-crash\/\">CCTV footage shows crazy SA taxi crash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video has emerged on YouTube showing a taxi rolling onto its side with passengers still hanging out of the window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":111753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-117384","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\/117384","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=117384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117390,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117384\/revisions\/117390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}