{"id":816452,"date":"2026-07-21T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816452\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:47:09","slug":"driver-caught-speeding-at-208-km-h-on-laval-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816452\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver caught speeding at 208 km\/h on Laval highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old motorist has been slapped with a $1,993 speeding ticket and 24 demerit points after he was intercepted early Monday by Quebec provincial police for driving 208 km\/h on northbound Highway 15 in Laval.<\/p>\n<p>The S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec said the driver was pulled over at about 1 a.m. near Cartier Blvd., where the speed limit is 100 km\/h. The motorist\u2019s licence was suspended for seven days.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes as Quebec is recording <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/provincial-news\/deadly-start-to-construction-holiday-with-five-fatalities-on-quebec-roads\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a deadly start to its two-week construction holiday period<\/a>, with a pair of collisions within 24 hours of one another, claiming five lives and leaving one person in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old motorist has been slapped with a $1,993 speeding ticket and 24 demerit points after he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,222407,2338],"class_list":["post-816452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime-and-law","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}