{"id":86447,"date":"2015-04-15T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/86447\/drunk-driver-crashes-into-stadium-fence\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T08:18:06","slug":"drunk-driver-crashes-into-stadium-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/15\/drunk-driver-crashes-into-stadium-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk driver crashes into stadium fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver, in an alleged drunken stupor, was arrested in the early hours of last Saturday morning, after losing control of his vehicle and crashing into the Huntersfield Stadium concrete palisade fencing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA call came through to the EMPD about the incident, and a Loss Control and Investigations Unit member dashed to the scene and found the inebriated driver slumped over the steering wheel of his vehicle, oblivious of what had happened,\u201d said Wilfred Kgasago, spokesman for the EMPD.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cExtensive damage was caused to the fencing, as well as to the culprit\u2019s vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old driver came out unscathed from the accident.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor and damaging council property.<\/p>\n<p>The case was registered at the Katlehong North Police Station and the driver is expected to appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court soon.<\/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='a17c66baf7ecfb46712b81a5d64dcf21'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fencing takes a bashing thanks to drunk driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":86448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,508,2],"tags":[7159,1803,989,7158,988,979,969,5994,1015,2734],"class_list":["post-86447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-choice","category-news-headlines","tag-council-property","tag-crash","tag-crime","tag-drunk-driver","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-huntersfield-stadium","tag-katlehong","tag-melissa-hart"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["council property","crash","crime","drunk driver","empd","germiston","germiston city news","Huntersfield Stadium","katlehong","melissa hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86447","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=86447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}