{"id":46258,"date":"2013-10-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/46258\/drunk-driver-causes-accidentornabbed-for-drunken-driving\/"},"modified":"2013-10-15T14:18:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T12:18:23","slug":"drunk-driver-causes-accidentornabbed-for-drunken-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/10\/15\/drunk-driver-causes-accidentornabbed-for-drunken-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk driver causes accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently arrested a 34-year-old man for driving a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, in Pretoria Road.<\/p>\n<p>This occurred after the police received a complaint regarding an accident on Pretoria Road.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Upon their arrival, the police found a motor vehicle and a motorcycle involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The victim alleged that the accused&#8217;s vehicle had bumped his motorcycle and that he smelt of liquor,&#8221; said Const Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The police then approached the accused, who reeked of alcohol, struggled to talk and could hardly stand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested and charges of reckless and negligent driving and driving a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol were laid against him.<\/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='5305891e9f4181f619781432e815dd5e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nabbed for drunken driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":46259,"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":[1130,989,1914,979,999,1000,1480,997,1911],"class_list":["post-46258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-crime","tag-drunken-driving","tag-germiston","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-suspect"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["accident","crime","drunken driving","germiston","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","suspect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46258","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=46258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}