{"id":142844,"date":"2017-01-25T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142844\/empd-officers-crack-down-on-highway-speedsters\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T15:53:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:53:44","slug":"empd-officers-crack-down-on-highway-speedsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/25\/empd-officers-crack-down-on-highway-speedsters\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPD officers crack down on highway speedsters in Germiston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD officers from the High Speed Unit tackled speeding on the N3 south highway, near the Rand Airport off-ramp, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The operation took place between 5am and 11am.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They apprehended five speedsters for ignoring the 120km per hour speed limit.<\/p>\n<p>At 5.27am officers stopped a white VW Golf 7 driven by a 33-year-old man, with a female passenger, for clocking 202km\/h.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The wrongdoer alleged that he was on his way home.<\/p>\n<p>Other law breakers were caught doing speeds of between 162km\/h and 185km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>All offenders were detained at the Germiston Police Station and charged with reckless and negligent driving.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects will appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142629\/forty-warrants-for-traffic-fines-executed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forty warrants for traffic fines executed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142239\/empd-seizes-r20-000-worth-of-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD seizes R20 000 worth of drugs<\/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='9474fc0061bf94aa6ba9314bfbf4bfd7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people were apprehended for disregarding the speed limit, on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":75907,"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":[989,988,13506,979,969,2962,2734,6596,2250,6627],"class_list":["post-142844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-empd","tag-empd-high-speed-unit","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-police-station","tag-melissa-hart","tag-n3-highway","tag-speeding","tag-speedsters"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","empd","EMPD high speed unit","germiston","germiston city news","germiston police station","melissa hart","N3 highway","speeding","speedsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142844","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=142844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}