An EMPD officer had to receive medical attention after being bitten by a speeding motorist.<\/p>\n
The incident took place at 8.30am, on Saturday, along Old Heidelberg Road near Rondebult.<\/p>
The road is an 80km\/h zone and the 35-year-old male driver of a blue VW Citi Golf was clocked at 111km\/h.<\/p>\n
The Citi Golf driver resisted arrest and in the process, sunk his teeth deep into the arresting officer\u2019s right arm which necessitated medical attention at Union Hospital.<\/p>
\u201cThe aggressive driver was locked up at the Alberton Police Station where he was charged with excessive speeding, assault and resisting arrest,\u201d said Lieut-Col Wilfred Kgasago, the spokesman for the EMPD.<\/p>\n
The man was expected to appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court on April 11.<\/p>\n
In other speeding incidents on the same day, EMPD officers nabbed a 31-year-old man driving a Hyundai H1 on the N3 highway southbound, near the Rand Airport turn-off.<\/p>\n
He was clocked doing 178km\/h in a 120km\/h zone.<\/p>\n
The man provided no reason for the offence and was charged at the Germiston Police Station with reckless and negligent driving.<\/p>\n
He was released after posting bail of R1 000.<\/p>\n
He was expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court on April 11.<\/p>\n
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