{"id":917007,"date":"2022-01-17T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/17\/woman-loses-control-of-vehicle-lands-in-ditch-in-cape-town\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:39:00","slug":"woman-loses-control-of-vehicle-lands-in-ditch-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/17\/woman-loses-control-of-vehicle-lands-in-ditch-in-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman loses control of vehicle, lands in ditch in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CAPE TOWN: A woman has sustained moderate injuries after her vehicle landed in a ditch in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Netcare 911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst said the crash occurred on Saturday at 10.25am.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNetcare 911 responded to a collision on Broadway Boulevard direction Stellenbosch in Somerset West, Cape Town.<\/p>\n

\u201cReports indicate that the driver of a light motor vehicle lost control, resulting in the car leaving the road, coming to rest in a ditch.\u201d <\/p>\n

He said the woman had sustained moderate injuries and was treated on the scene by medical personnel before being transported by a private ambulance to a hospital for further care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a separate incident in KwaZulu-Natal, Herbst said Netcare 911 responded to a collision on the P200 freeway in Gamalakhe on the South coast on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cReports indicate that the driver of a light delivery vehicle had lost control, leaving the road, then crashing into a tree where the vehicle came to rest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe patient was assessed and found to have sustained minor injuries. (He) declined ambulance transportation to hospital,\u201d Herbst said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In an unrelated incident later on the same day, Herbst said Netcare 911 responded to reports of a collision on the R36 Orichstad Road in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n

He said reports indicated that two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision.<\/p>\n

Medical personnel on the scene found two adult men who had sustained serious injuries due to the crash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBoth men were treated on scene while the fire and rescue services used hydraulic tools to free them from the wreckage.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce stabilised, the patients were transported by ambulance to hospital for further care,\u201d Herbst said.<\/p>\n

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CAPE TOWN: A woman has sustained moderate injuries after her vehicle landed in a ditch in Cape Town. Netcare 911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst said the crash occurred on Saturday at 10.25am. \u201cNetcare 911 responded to a collision on Broadway Boulevard direction Stellenbosch in Somerset West, Cape Town. \u201cReports indicate that the driver of a light […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}