{"id":75906,"date":"2014-12-14T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/75906\/speeding-way-forward\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T13:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T11:00:22","slug":"speeding-way-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/12\/14\/speeding-way-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding is not the way forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is important to note that speeding can occur when a person is driving faster than they should, during bad road conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Every public road throughout the country has some kind of speed limit that has been put in place because experts from the relevant authorities have analysed that area and designated a speed which is safe for that particular road.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>By going over the speed limit you are placing yourself at risk. Everything starts to exponentially multiply as our speed increases. The damage is far higher in a high-speed incident and is certainly more likely to happen, the faster you travel.<\/p>\n<p>Your stopping distance becomes greater, for instance, if your braking distance from 60km\/h to zero is, for example, 30 metres, it will increase to almost 120 metres from 120km\/h to zero. Speeding also makes your vehicle more difficult to control and it drastically reduces the amount of time you have to react to a situation.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>We\u2019d also like to appeal to your wallet here\u2026 the faster you travel, the more fuel you use, the harder it is on your vehicle from a maintenance perspective, not to mention the accumulation of costly speeding fines.<\/p>\n<p>Speeding ranks up there with distracted driving, such as texting, speaking, eating and the like &#8211; as well as impaired driving which constitutes drinking and substance abuse while driving, all causes in road accidents.<\/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='615cf15f8c7079214cf62f097a3b4d0a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists may not be the biggest fans of our traffic department here in South Africa but one thing these people get right; most of the time is speed limits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"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":[2],"tags":[5972,1648,3213,5973,2513,2362,5974,5975],"class_list":["post-75906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines","tag-driving","tag-gauteng","tag-johannesburg","tag-road-rage","tag-road-safety","tag-south-africa","tag-traffic-department","tag-traffic-laws"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["driving","Gauteng","Johannesburg","road rage","road safety","South Africa","traffic department","traffic laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75906","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75906\/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=75906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}