NO fewer than 12 suspects were apprehended for exceeding the enforced 120km/h speed limit in the Alberton and Bedfordview areas,
between Friday, May 26 and Sunday, May 28. At 7.15am on Friday, a 28-year-old male Polo driver who claimed to be late for work was stopped for clocking 161km/h on the N3 freeway direction south (Durban) near the Grey avenue off-ramp.
Three minibus taxi drivers, recorded as doing between 143 and 152 km/h instead of 100km/h, were also nabbed in the same place.
On Saturday at 3.30pm, at Gillooly’s interchange, on the N3 freeway, direction north (Tshwane/Pretoria), officers stopped a 64-year-old male driving a Jaguar sedan, for doing 168km/h. He claimed to be rushing home. Two other suspects who clocked between 164 and 166km/h, were also attended to.
On Sunday, May 28, at 7.15am at the Reading interchange (N12 freeway direction west/Soweto by the R59 bridge), a 52-year-old male barman, who said he was late for work, was caught on his bike clocking 182km/h. Four other speedsters were captured for driving between 163 and 167km/h.
All those detained were charged with reckless and negligent driving at the Alberton and Bedfordview police stations. Suspects will appear at the Palmridge and Germiston Magistrate’s courts soon.
*Supplied by: Kobeli Mokheseng, EMPD Media Liaison Officer.
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