{"id":860392,"date":"2025-07-05T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/rip-malcolm-booysen-14-year-old-brakpan-car-accident-victim-laid-to-rest\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:18:00","slug":"rip-malcolm-booysen-14-year-old-brakpan-car-accident-victim-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/rip-malcolm-booysen-14-year-old-brakpan-car-accident-victim-laid-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Malcolm Booysen | 14-year-old Brakpan car accident victim laid to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BRAKPAN, JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Fourteen<span>-year-old Malcolm Booysens, who was crushed by a car driven by a 12-year-old boy, was laid to rest in Brakpan, on the East Rand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Families, friends and the boy&#8217;s school mates came out to pay their last respects on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span>The young driver has already appeared in court, facing charges of culpable homicide and driving without a license.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/top-stories\/brakpan-court-yet-determine-whether-minor-can-stand-trial\"><span><strong>READ: Brakpan court yet to determine whether minor can stand trial<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Authorities are urging parents to be vigilant following this unfortunate accident that claimed the life of the young boy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>eNCA reporter Naomi Kobbie spoke to Malcom&#8217;s aunt who said this accident could have been prevented.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> eNCA<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/top-stories\/rip-malcolm-booysen-14-year-old-brakpan-car-accident-victim-laid-rest\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRAKPAN, JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Fourteen-year-old Malcolm Booysens, who was crushed by a car driven by a 12-year-old boy, was laid to rest in Brakpan, on the East Rand. Families, friends and the boy&#8217;s school mates came out to pay their last respects on Friday. The young driver has already appeared in court, facing charges of culpable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":860393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142366,34382],"tags":[145092,12394],"class_list":{"0":"post-860392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-booysen","8":"category-malcolm","9":"tag-booysen","10":"tag-malcolm"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}