{"id":90833,"date":"2015-06-02T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=90833"},"modified":"2015-06-02T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T08:26:58","slug":"man-nabbed-doing-226kmh-on-n3-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/02\/man-nabbed-doing-226kmh-on-n3-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Man nabbed doing 226km\/h on N3 highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an apparent desperate attempt to avoid being late for an appointment with his mother-in-law, a 33-year-old driver in a brand new Mercedes Benz C63 AMG was caught doing a breakneck speed of 226km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>The man was caught by EMPD officers on the N3 highway southbound near the Rand Airport Road off-ramp on Sunday morning.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was arrested at 6.36am and charged with reckless and negligent driving at the Germiston Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>The reckless Mercedes Benz driver was joined in police custody by four other speedsters who were caught doing speeds of between 186 and 161km\/h in this 120km\/h speed limit stretch of the highway.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The arrestees advanced reasons ranging from being lost to visiting a parent in prison.<\/p>\n<p>They were all nabbed between 6am and 8.30am.<\/p>\n<p>All the arrestees were released after posting bail of R1 000 each save the Mercedes Benz driver whose bail-hearing took place on June 1.<\/p>\n<p>All the others are expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/p>\n<p>Other EMPD articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/82898\/passing-empd-officers-come-to-womens-rescueorhell-hath-no-fury\/\" target=\"_blank\">Passing EMPD officers come to women\u2019s rescue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88641\/empd-make-drug-bust-after-tip-off\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD make drug bust after tip-off<\/a><\/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='5ad0d54163b227a02d91a3d3717ad649'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man blames appointment with mother-in-law as his reason for speeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":90834,"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":[989,988,979,969,2962,2734,6596,7541,1612,2250,6627],"class_list":["post-90833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-police-station","tag-melissa-hart","tag-n3-highway","tag-off-ramp","tag-rand-airport-road","tag-speeding","tag-speedsters"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","empd","germiston","germiston city news","germiston police station","melissa hart","N3 highway","off ramp","rand airport road","speeding","speedsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90833","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}