{"id":63478,"date":"2017-02-17T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=63478"},"modified":"2017-02-18T08:27:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T06:27:25","slug":"motorists-arrested-speeding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/17\/motorists-arrested-speeding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorists arrested for speeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three of those arrests occurred on the N4, one of the motorist having been caught near Middelburg.<\/p>\n<p>On 3 February, traffic officers caught Mr Sipho Ntshali driving 169km\/hr, exceeding the 120km\/hr limit between Middelburg and eMalahleni. On the same day, five other motorists were apprehended for exceeding speed limits.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gayani Tawanda was caught for exceeding the 80km\/hr by 126km\/hr, also on the N4 toll road, and was granted bail.<\/p>\n<p>He was due to appear in the Komatipoort Magistrate Court on 07 February.<\/p>\n<p>MEC for Mpumalanga Community Safety, Security and Liaison, Pat Ngomane, commended the many traffic officers for their efforts in the successful arrests which he said was part of the government&#8217;s efforts to reduce accidents.<\/p>\n<p>The most common causes of car crashes are speeding; driving under the influence; dangerous overtaking and reacless driving.<\/p>\n<p>Read other stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63467\/weather-for-the-weekend-7\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weather for the weekend<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63461\/vrou-met-dood-gedreig\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vrou met dood gedreig<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63284\/pa-en-seun-oorleef-ongeluk-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pa en seun oorleef ongeluk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63251\/gepeupelreg-lei-tot-moord\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gepeupelreg lei tot moord<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63238\/armed-robber-shot-emhluzi-mall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Armed robber shot at e\u2019Mhluzi Mall<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63220\/conspiracy-rob-studio-88\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conspiracy to rob studio 88<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63219\/sikloon-op-pad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sikloon is op pad!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speeding is still an issue in the province with at least nine motorists arrested since the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":63486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tobie van den Bergh","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}