{"id":194652,"date":"2025-12-16T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194652\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:20:09","slug":"drink-driving-rider-arrested-after-illegal-e-scooter-seized-in-offaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194652\/","title":{"rendered":"Drink Driving Rider Arrested After Illegal E-Scooter Seized In Offaly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 16 December 2025 08:44\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/64d2085472904.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The rider arrested was eight times over the legal limit.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Offaly Roads Policing Unit has seized an illegal high-powered electric scooter following an incident in the county.<\/p>\n<p>The scooter was equipped with a 2000-watt motor, making it unlawful for use on public roads.<\/p>\n<p>The rider was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and was found to be over eight times the legal alcohol limit.<\/p>\n<p>The person has been charged and is due to appear before Tullamore District Court, while the scooter has been seized for technical examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 16 December 2025 08:44 The rider arrested was eight times over the legal limit. Offaly Roads Policing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-194652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}