{"id":115764,"date":"2016-03-15T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/115764\/seven-night-time-speedsters-nabbed-in-leondale\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T11:29:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T09:29:05","slug":"seven-night-time-speedsters-nabbed-in-leondale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/15\/seven-night-time-speedsters-nabbed-in-leondale\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven night-time speedsters nabbed in Leondale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD Speed Law Enforcement Unit members were out in full force recently.<\/p>\n<p>They targeted motorists not observing the speed limit on Nedervene Road in Leondale (a 70km\/h zone), between 6pm and midnight.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Between 6.30pm and 10pm, seven drivers were locked up for speeding.<\/p>\n<p>All seven of the arrested drivers claimed that they were rushing home to rest after a long day at their places of employment.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The highest speedster was clocked at 129km\/h and the second highest at 126km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the arrested drivers were caught doing 118, 115, 114, 112 and 113km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>Charges of reckless and negligent driving were laid against the drivers and they are expected to appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court soon.<\/p>\n<p>They were all released after posting bail of R1 000 each.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/115598\/police-appeal-for-information-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police appeal for information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/115280\/take-care-of-your-car\/\" target=\"_blank\">Take care of your car<\/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='82b47ec73c7857f0ba2e702447fbd558'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD officers target speedsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":115766,"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":[989,988,979,969,1068,2734,2250],"class_list":["post-115764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leondale","tag-melissa-hart","tag-speeding"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","empd","germiston","germiston city news","leondale","melissa hart","speeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115764","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=115764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}