{"id":722389,"date":"2026-06-08T04:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722389\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T04:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:58:12","slug":"sydney-news-teenager-claims-car-doesnt-go-that-fast-after-travelling-100km-h-over-the-speed-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722389\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney news: Teenager claims \u2018car doesn\u2019t go that fast\u2019 after travelling 100km\/h over the speed limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has been busted for travelling at nearly 190km\/h in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/sydney-fp5\" class=\"sc-ezrozd dxCwVA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney\u2019s<\/a> west, despite claiming his car can\u2019t travel that fast.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old was allegedly travelling at 187km\/h on The Northern Road in Luddenham, which is posted as an 80km\/h zone, on Saturday in a white Hyundai i30.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4a7796d3a8a08503d473616603faa75bb34f362ea45bcfff9c608b499ec7a8b1.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">The teenager claimed it wasn&#8217;t possible for his car to travel more than 100km\/h over the speed limit.\u00a0NSW Police<\/p>\n<p>The teenager stopped at a red light at Elizabeth Drive, where police caught up to him and pulled him over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCouldn\u2019t have been me, my car doesn\u2019t go that fast,\u201d the teenager claimed when spoken to by police.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old also admitted to using non-medicinal cannabis, testing positive for the banned substance in a secondary test. He tested negative to alcohol and other drugs.<\/p>\n<p>It was also found the car was not registered.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager was charged with driving at a dangerous speed over 45km\/h and for driving an unregistered motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>His driver\u2019s licence was also confiscated and suspended, and he has been given a 24-hour banning notice.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager will face Penrith Local Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has been busted for travelling at nearly 190km\/h in Sydney\u2019s west, despite claiming his car can\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-722389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}