{"id":43881,"date":"2022-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?guid=3048d138caea811559d9a03059b8699a"},"modified":"2022-04-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T00:00:00","slug":"despatch-police-seek-hit-and-run-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/despatch-police-seek-hit-and-run-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Despatch police seek &#8216;hit and run&#8217; driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>ZWELITSHA &#8211; SAPS Despatch detectives are urgently seeking the driver of a vehicle, who was allegedly involved in an accident with a pedestrian in Algoa Road, Despatch, last night, 4 April 2022.<\/P><P>It is alleged that at about 20:00, the driver of a VW T-Cross was travelling behind another vehicle in Algoa Road, when the driver suddenly heard something falling on top of her vehicle. She immediately stopped and discovered the body of a male lying in the road.  It is further alleged that the driver of the other vehicle failed to stop at the accident scene.<\/P><P>A case of culpable homicide is under investigation. The name of the 52-year-old victim will be released once a formal identification is done.  <\/P><P>Police are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the incident or who is able to assist with information about the driver or his\/her whereabouts, is requested to contact Detective Warrant Officer Mario Jonck on 084 810 9078\/ 041 933 8800 or Crime Stop 08600 10111.<\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: South African Police Service<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZWELITSHA &#8211; SAPS Despatch detectives are urgently seeking the driver of a vehicle, who was allegedly involved in an accident with a pedestrian in Algoa Road, Despatch, last night, 4 April 2022.It is alleged that at about 20:00, the driver of a VW T-Cro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43882,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43881\/revisions\/43882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}