{"id":195495,"date":"2026-10-17T05:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T08:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/?p=195495&preview=true&preview_id=195495"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:15:12","slug":"7-year-old-child-seriously-injured-on-krakaweg-driver-without-valid-licence-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/7-year-old-child-seriously-injured-on-krakaweg-driver-without-valid-licence-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"7-year-old child seriously injured on Krakaweg; driver without valid licence arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p>A 7-year-old child was seriously injured on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/one-dead-and-two-injured-in-traffic-accident-on-nieuwweergevondenweg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traffic accident<\/a> on Krakaweg, near Baling Savanah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap \" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; border-color: #ffffff;\">T<\/span>he victim was struck by a bus while crossing the road. The driver of the vehicle was arrested and detained by police after it emerged that he did not possess the required driving licence.<\/p>\n<p>According to the preliminary police investigation, the child wanted to cross Krakaweg from the northern to the southern side to board a school bus that had stopped on the other side. At that moment, another bus was approaching from the direction of Zanderij, travelling towards Afobakaweg.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the driver of this bus did not take sufficient account of the child crossing the road, resulting in a collision. The victim sustained serious injuries and had to be admitted to the paediatric ward of the Academisch Ziekenhuis Paramaribo (AZP).<\/p>\n<p>Bus driver not authorised to drive a bus<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, the <a href=\"https:\/\/politie.sr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police<\/a> discovered that the driver was not authorised to operate the bus. The man appeared to hold only a driving licence for categories B and E, while a category D licence is required to drive a bus.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was subsequently arrested and detained in the interest of the investigation. The Traffic Department of Regio Midden is investigating the exact circumstances of the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 7-year-old child was seriously injured after being hit by a bus on Krakaweg; the driver was found to be driving without a valid licence and was arrested by police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":195388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_29234516172805655_1309923202201307":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1158244960706604":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1093738170500407":"","facebook_29234516172805655_108923581283702":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16290],"tags":[20505,24283,24285,16294,24284],"class_list":["post-195495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-police","tag-collision","tag-driver-arrested","tag-krakaweg","tag-police","tag-seven-year-old"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195501,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195495\/revisions\/195501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}