{"id":146213,"date":"2017-03-07T07:10:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=146213"},"modified":"2017-03-07T08:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T06:55:20","slug":"empd-nab-five-speedsters-highway-germiston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/07\/empd-nab-five-speedsters-highway-germiston\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPD nab five speedsters on highway in Germiston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD officers from the High Speed Unit once again tackled speedsters on the city\u2019s highways.<\/p>\n<p>In an operation, last Sunday, between 5am and 11am, on the N3 highway northbound near the M2 highway split in Germiston, five motorists were apprehended for ignoring the 120km speed limit.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Officers stopped a blue Audi S3, driven by a 42-year-old man with a woman and two children as passengers, for clocking 172km\/h at 7am.<\/p>\n<p>The speedster alleged that they were late for church.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The other four alleged offenders were caught doing speeds between 162 and 166km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll law breakers were detained and charged, with reckless and negligent driving, at the Germiston Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuspects will appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court soon,\u201d said Lieut Kobeli Mokheseng, media liaison officer for the EMPD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142844\/empd-officers-crack-down-on-highway-speedsters\/\">EMPD officers crack down on highway speedsters in Germiston<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142239\/empd-seizes-r20-000-worth-of-drugs\/\">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='757491094f8512d8575478a7dabba173'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD members once again targeted speeding motorists on Germiston\u2019s highways.<\/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":[989,988,13506,979,969,2962,2734,4273,2250],"class_list":["post-146213","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-reckless-and-negligent-driving","tag-speeding"],"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","reckless and negligent driving","speeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146213","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=146213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146213\/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=146213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}