{"id":149483,"date":"2017-04-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/149483\/seven-drivers-nabbed-for-excessive-speeding-on-n3-highway\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:04:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:04:18","slug":"seven-drivers-nabbed-for-excessive-speeding-on-n3-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/04\/19\/seven-drivers-nabbed-for-excessive-speeding-on-n3-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven drivers nabbed for excessive speeding on N3 highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stretch of the N3 southbound highway between the PPC Cement factory and the bend just after the Rand Airport turn-off in Germiston, notorious for accidents mostly attributed to excessive speeding, was targeted by the EMPD High Speed Unit, last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The unit\u2019s efforts yielded seven arrests between 6am and 10am.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>All seven arrestees were male drivers aged between 26 and 41.<\/p>\n<p>The highest speed of 176km was recorded by a 38-year-old man riding a Yamaha motorcycle who claimed that he was rushing home.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The rest of the speedsters clocked speeds of between 161 and 164km\/h advancing reasons of being late for church services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Germiston Police Station was their home for a couple of hours on charges of reckless and negligent driving before they all posted bail of R1 000 each,\u201d said Lieut-Col Wilfred Kgasago, spokesman for the metro.<\/p>\n<p>They are expected to 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\/149243\/ekurhuleni-west-cluster-nab-125\/\">Ekurhuleni West cluster nab 125<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/149041\/man-shot-and-killed-in-webber-road\/\">Man shot and killed in Webber Road<\/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='3ec7bc289a88bc0d9bd2c20578b8da56'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD officers arrested seven drivers on the N3 Highway in Germiston last 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":[988,13506,979,969,2734,6596,2250],"class_list":["post-149483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-empd","tag-empd-high-speed-unit","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":["empd","EMPD high speed unit","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\/149483","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=149483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149483\/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=149483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}