{"id":58389,"date":"2018-01-01T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T09:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=58389"},"modified":"2018-01-01T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T09:34:40","slug":"7-die-5-injured-in-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/01\/01\/7-die-5-injured-in-road-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"7 die, 5 injured in road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven people died and five others were injured in a road accident at Elephant Rock in Mzimba District yesterday.<br \/>\nMzimba Police spokesperson, Peter Botha, said the accident involved a motor vehicle, registration number NA 7605\/LA 1281, which was being driven by Gift Magolosa.<br \/>\nHe said the freightliner, which was carrying bags of fertiliser, was coming from Lilongwe to Mzuzu.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile descending a slope at Elephant Rock, the driver failed to negotiate a corner as the vehicle was speeding. The vehicle swerved and plunged into a ditch,\u201d Botha said.<br \/>\nBotha said, following the impact, seven people, who were yet to be identified, were referred to Mzuzu Central Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven people died and five others were injured in a road accident at Elephant Rock in Mzimba District yesterday. Mzimba Police spokesperson, Peter Botha, said the accident involved a motor vehicle, registration number NA 7605\/LA 1281, which was being driven by Gift Magolosa. He said the freightliner, which was carrying bags of fertiliser, was coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58396,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58389\/revisions\/58396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}