{"id":55730,"date":"2014-03-20T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/55730\/drunk-driver-drives-down-wrong-side-of-the-road\/"},"modified":"2014-03-20T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T12:03:27","slug":"drunk-driver-drives-down-wrong-side-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/03\/20\/drunk-driver-drives-down-wrong-side-of-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist nabbed for drunk driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While officers were on a recent patrol of the Primrose area they noticed a motorcyclist driving along the wrong side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>They attempted to stop him, but he ignored them and sped away.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The officers gave chase and, after several minutes, managed to corner the man.<\/p>\n<p>They started to question the driver, and immediately noticed a strong smell of alcohol and that the man&#8217;s eyes were bloodshot.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The man could barely talk and could not explain to officers why he was driving in the on-coming traffic&#8217;s lane,&#8221; said Sgt Styles Maome communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station.<\/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='7e89af79d71acf47fcffdd896a1b5d8b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drunk driver drives down wrong side of the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":55731,"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":[1041,8297,989,3123,1140,3122,1012,1003,979,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-55730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-driving-under-the-influence","tag-driving-under-the-influence-of-alcohol","tag-drunk-driving","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","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","community","crime","driving under the influence","driving under the influence of alcohol","drunk driving","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55730","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=55730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}