{"id":105339,"date":"2015-11-19T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/105339\/six-drivers-caught-speeding-by-empd\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T08:29:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T06:29:22","slug":"six-drivers-caught-speeding-by-empd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/19\/six-drivers-caught-speeding-by-empd\/","title":{"rendered":"Six drivers caught speeding by EMPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD officers recently nabbed six speeding drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests took place between 5am and 11am on N17 highway, near the Heidelberg bridge, in the Elsburg area which is a 120km\/h zone.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The arrested drivers were charged with exceeding the speed limit, at the Elsburg Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>They were all subsequently released on bail of R1 500 each and are expected appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Two brothers on motorcycles, a Honda and a BMW, were arrested when clocked at 168 and 172km\/h respectively.<\/p>\n<p>One claimed that he was not paying attention and the other said he was trying to catch up with other riders.<\/p>\n<p>The rest were caught doing speeds of between 161 and 169km\/h, giving reasons of rushing to church, late for a funeral or no reason at all for breaking the law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=100818\">Morning hijacking and robbery spree halted by EMPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/97135\/empd-saps-nail-hijackers-recover-vehicle-and-firearm\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD, SAPS nail hijackers, recover vehicle and firearm<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='7e265081c998d6c4e26eb0a0e4ff4c32'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD cracks down on speeding drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":105394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1535,1318,988,979,969,2734,2250,6627],"class_list":["post-105339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrest","tag-elsburg","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-speeding","tag-speedsters"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrest","elsburg","empd","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","speeding","speedsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}