{"id":138009,"date":"2016-09-25T23:20:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T21:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=138009"},"modified":"2016-09-25T23:22:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T21:22:47","slug":"watch-horror-taxi-accident-caught-on-dashcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/138009\/watch-horror-taxi-accident-caught-on-dashcam\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Horror taxi accident caught on dashcam in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new video has emerged showing a horror fatal accident involving two minibus taxis in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Dashcam video footage uploaded by Crime Watch, shows a taxi overtaking a vehicle illegally, before swerving into oncoming traffic as the driver loses control.<\/p>\n<p>The taxi slams into another minibus taxi before flipping over. At least one person can be seen thrown out of one of the vehicles involved in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear where in the country the accident took place.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of April 2016 there were 301,000 registered minibus taxis on the roads, transporting millions of commuters on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/arrivealive.co.za\/Minibus-Taxi-Crashes-and-Road-Safety-in-Gauteng\" target=\"_blank\">Arrive Alive<\/a>, nearly 650 accidents involving a minibus taxi have occurred in the country since 2013.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2DYhz_RpLqo\" width=\"560\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on taxis in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/108787\/cctv-footage-shows-crazy-taxi-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CCTV footage shows crazy SA taxi crash<\/strong><\/a><\/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 horror fatal accident involving two minibus taxis in South Africa.<\/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":[25,26],"class_list":["post-138009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138009","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=138009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138013,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138009\/revisions\/138013"}],"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=138009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}