{"id":138540,"date":"2016-11-16T07:11:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T05:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=138540"},"modified":"2016-11-16T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T12:54:17","slug":"four-speedsters-nabbed-on-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/11\/16\/four-speedsters-nabbed-on-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Four speedsters nabbed on highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver claiming to be in a hurry to get home was arrested by members of the EMPD at 6.40am, on Sunday, on the N3 south highway just after the Rand Airport Road exit.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old male driver \u2013 caught doing 180km\/h in a 120km\/h zone &#8211; had three male passengers with him in his red VW Golf 6.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was locked up at the Germiston Police Station where he was charged with reckless and negligent driving.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, on the same stretch of the highway, three more drivers suffered the same fate when they were clocked at 163, 165 and 166km\/h, respectively.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The speedsters were charged with reckless and negligent driving at the Germiston Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>They were all subsequently released after posting bail of R1 000 each.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers 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\/134907\/empd-demolishes-illegal-trading-structures-in-katlehong\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD demolishes illegal trading structures in Katlehong<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128690\/empd-arrests-wanted-pair\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD arrests wanted pair<\/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='1d66dbb4e2626ffeb2b1e0b1220cfa4b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four drivers were nabbed for excessive speeding on the N3 south near the Rand Airport Road off-ramp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":134714,"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":[1041,989,988,979,969,2734,6596,2250],"class_list":["post-138540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-crime","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-n3-highway","tag-speeding"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","crime","empd","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","N3 highway","speeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138540","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}