{"id":3993,"date":"2024-08-26T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:30:41","slug":"cop-injured-as-fleeing-kombi-driver-crashes-into-roadblock-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=3993","title":{"rendered":"Cop Injured as Fleeing Kombi Driver Crashes into Roadblock Drums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Crimes and Court Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A police officer and another motorist were injured on Thursday when a kombi driver, resisting arrest for a traffic offence, drove into police drums at a roadblock along the Gweru-Zvishavane road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The suspect, George Mandaraza, 34, was stopped at the roadblock and arrested for a traffic offence. However, he made a U-turn and intentionally drove the kombi towards the roadblock, hitting the police drums,&#8221; said police in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kombi then veered off the road, hit streetlights, and collided head-on with a Honda Fit vehicle, injuring a police officer and the driver of the Honda Fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The suspect fled the scene after the incident,&#8221; said police, who have opened investigations into attempted murder allegations against Mandaraza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police appealed for any information leading to the arrest of the suspect, saying, &#8220;We urge anyone with information to come forward and assist us in bringing the perpetrator to justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimes and Court Correspondent A police officer and another motorist were injured on Thursday when a kombi driver, resisting arrest for a traffic offence, drove into police drums at a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}