{"id":52216,"date":"2014-01-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/52216\/man-arrested-for-drunk-drivingorman-driving-recklessly-nabbed\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T08:38:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T06:38:42","slug":"man-arrested-for-drunk-drivingorman-driving-recklessly-nabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/01\/28\/man-arrested-for-drunk-drivingorman-driving-recklessly-nabbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Man driving recklessly nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 33-year-old man was recently arrested by the Primrose police for drunk driving.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made on the corner of Cactus and Stanley roads, after officers noticed the man driving recklessly and immediately stopped the vehicle.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The driver struggled to climb out of his vehicle and was unable to speak properly.<\/p>\n<p>Officers also noticed that his eyes were bloodshot and that he smelled of alcohol.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The man was arrested and taken to a local hospital to undergo a blood test, to confirm if he was, indeed, under the influence of alcohol,&#8221; said Const Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The man appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where his case was postponed for trial.<\/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='0bfb1562e683054eafa831ffb5c33ca4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested for drunk driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":52217,"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":[1041,989,1140,2675,1914,1012,1003,979,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-52216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-crime","tag-driving-under-the-influence-of-alcohol","tag-drunk","tag-drunken-driving","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","crime","driving under the influence of alcohol","drunk","drunken driving","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52216","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=52216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}