{"id":3078,"date":"2025-12-10T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/10\/kabul-kandahar-highway-traffic-accident-two-killed\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:40:18","slug":"kabul-kandahar-highway-traffic-accident-two-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/10\/kabul-kandahar-highway-traffic-accident-two-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Killed, Two Injured in Traffic Accident on Kabul\u2013Kandahar Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police command of Maidan Wardak province has reported a fatal traffic accident that occurred earlier this morning (Wednesday, December 9) on the Kabul\u2013Kandahar highway, in the Badam area of Nirkh district. According to authorities, the collision involved a passenger vehicle and a cargo truck, resulting in two fatalities and two injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The victims included one man and one woman, while another woman and a young man sustained injuries. The injured were transported to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The Kabul\u2013Kandahar highway is one of the busiest roads in the country and has frequently seen traffic accidents, often attributed to driver negligence and poor road conditions. Local residents have called on the Taliban administration to implement concrete measures to improve road safety and enforce driver oversight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly collision on the Kabul\u2013Kandahar highway leaves two dead and two injured in Maidan Wardak. Locals urge Taliban action on road safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}