{"id":751226,"date":"2026-06-21T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751226\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:19:21","slug":"driver-nearly-loses-licence-after-near-double-speed-in-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751226\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver nearly loses licence after near-double speed in city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was caught going nearly twice the speed limit through the heart of Launceston while it was raining on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police allegedly clocked the white Volkswagen Golf doing 77km\/h in a signed 40km\/h zone along George Street just after 10pm on June 19.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old man from Newstead was stopped by police during a targeted operation in the Launceston CBD focused on hooning.<\/p>\n<p>He was fined $615 and lost 5 demerit points, but came close to losing his licence altogether. <\/p>\n<p>He was just 1km\/h below the speed that triggers an automatic three-month disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>Tasmania Police urged motorists to slow down and adjust to the conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlways obey speed limits and drive to the conditions,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice could be down the road or around the next corner, so always drive responsibly to help look after everyone on our roads.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was caught going nearly twice the speed limit through the heart of Launceston while it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-751226","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\/751226","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=751226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}