{"id":126352,"date":"2016-06-30T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126352\/empd-cracks-down-on-drinking-and-driving\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T08:08:12","slug":"empd-cracks-down-on-drinking-and-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/30\/empd-cracks-down-on-drinking-and-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPD cracks down on drinking and driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EMPD Freeway Unit members were out in full force, on Saturday, between 7pm and 10pm, monitoring drivers on the N17 highway and its off-ramps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix drivers were arrested when they were found to have taken one glass too many,\u201d said Lieut-Col Wilfred Kgasago, spokesman for the EMPD.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe six were nabbed for suspicion of drinking and driving thus posing a danger to innocent and law-abiding motorists on top of the Osborn Road bridge just after the N17 east bound exit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All six drivers were detained at the Germiston Police Station after being charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They were expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126345\/illegal-taverns-in-katlehong-raided-by-empd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Illegal taverns in Katlehong raided by EMPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126231\/update-police-give-details-of-lead-up-to-n3-highway-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Shoot-out between cops and criminals leads to accident<\/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='e9d16a0f330d979958398f26af055b69'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people spent the night behind bars after being caught on suspicion of drinking and driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":107408,"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":[989,6101,988,979,969,2734,7394,1267],"class_list":["post-126352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-drinking-and-driving","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-osborn-road","tag-wadeville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","drinking and driving","empd","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","Osborn road","wadeville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126352","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=126352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}