{"id":890829,"date":"2026-09-13T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890829\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:04:15","slug":"tourist-caught-at-159km-h-while-rushing-to-catch-a-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890829\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist caught at 159km\/h while \u2018rushing to catch a flight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tourist who told police she was \u201crushing to catch a flight home\u201d has been disqualified from driving after being caught travelling at 159km\/h on the Midland Highway.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old New South Wales woman was driving a rented Ford Ranger near Perth around 3pm on Saturday when a police motorcyclist detected her speed.<\/p>\n<p>The speed limit on that stretch of highway is 110km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>She was intercepted and fined $1,224.75, handed six demerit points and disqualified from driving for four months.<\/p>\n<p>Tasmania Police said in a social media post there was \u201cno excuse for excess speed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"76684\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/3a28209a-6cd00yxxnv64ye2_l4t2d_kxlgd\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3a28209a-6cd00yxxnv64ye2_l4t2d_kxlgd.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"3a28209a-6cd00yxxnv64ye2_l4t2d_kxlgd\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The speed limit on the stretch of highway where the driver was caught is 110km\/h. Image \/ Pulse (File)&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/3a28209a-6cd00yxxnv64ye2_l4t2d_kxlgd-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/3a28209a-6cd00yxxnv64ye2_l4t2d_kxlgd-1024x683.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3a28209a-6cd00yxxnv64ye2_l4t2d_kxlgd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\"  \/>The speed limit on the stretch of highway where the driver was caught is 110km\/h. Image \/ Pulse (File)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeeding is never worth the risk to yourself or others on our roads,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police warned losing a licence and receiving a fine were not the only possible penalties for speeding.<\/p>\n<p>Officers can also clamp or confiscate vehicles detected travelling 45km\/h or more over the speed limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tourist who told police she was \u201crushing to catch a flight home\u201d has been disqualified from driving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-890829","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\/890829","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=890829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}