{"id":916933,"date":"2026-10-05T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916933\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:54:15","slug":"nt-man-caught-driving-at-100km-h-over-the-speed-limit-with-0-153-blood-alcohol-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916933\/","title":{"rendered":"NT man caught driving at 100km\/h over the speed limit with 0.153 blood alcohol reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Northern Territory Police have charged a man with a string of traffic offences after he was allegedly caught driving at more than 100km\/h over the speed limit with a blood-alcohol reading of 0.153.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An NT Police spokesperson said officers spotted the man driving at 182km\/h in an 80km\/h zone on Elrundie Avenue in Moulden, outside Darwin, shortly after 8pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">They said he was taken to the Palmerston police station where he blew more than three times the legal blood-alcohol limit for unrestricted drivers and tested positive for &#8220;two prohibited drugs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man has been charged with driving at a dangerous speed, high-range drink-driving and drug-driving and was bailed to face the Darwin Local Court on October 20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This irresponsible and dangerous behaviour behind the wheel could have resulted in the loss of lives on our roads,&#8221;  Territory Road Policing officer-in-charge Devrim Kanyilmaz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Driving at such an excessive speed is reckless and shows a clear lack of consideration for the safety of others and themselves which is put at risk by this type of behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;I want to thank the Territory Road Policing team for their intervention that quite possibly saved lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Territory Police have charged a man with a string of traffic offences after he was allegedly caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[484822,64,63,5249,34155,484820,484821,44,8867,1098,17189,1158,97686],"class_list":["post-916933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-100km-over-speed-limit","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-darwin","tag-drink-driving","tag-elrundie-avenue","tag-moulden","tag-news","tag-northern-territory","tag-nt","tag-nt-police","tag-police","tag-speeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916933","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=916933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}