{"id":277565,"date":"2026-02-02T23:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277565\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T23:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:04:07","slug":"two-drivers-arrested-for-racing-on-60kph-letterkenny-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277565\/","title":{"rendered":"Two drivers arrested for RACING on 60Kph Letterkenny road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Main pic: The drivers of these cars were arrested after they were caught racing. Pic: Buncrana Roads Policing Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Two drivers were arrested last night after they were caught racing on a 60Kph Letterkenny road.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were detected by Garda\u00ed speeding on the Four-Lane Road on the outskirts of the town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of our Road Safety and Traffic Enforcement Campaign over the weekend, Buncrana Roads Policing Unit were conducting patrols last night when they observed two vehicles racing each other at high speeds on the Four Lane Road (N56) in Letterkenny,\u201d a Garda spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth vehicles were stopped. The drivers were arrested and charged to appear in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier yesterday, another driver was clocked by Garda\u00ed doing 106kph on the same road.<\/p>\n<p>The Guard\u2019s high-visibility Bank Holiday weekend campaign will continue across the county until tomorrow morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two drivers arrested for RACING on 60Kph Letterkenny road was last modified:  February 2nd, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Main pic: The drivers of these cars were arrested after they were caught racing. Pic: Buncrana Roads Policing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37166,11243,108898,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-277565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donegal-driving","9":"tag-donegal-news","10":"tag-donegal-speeding","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277565","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=277565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}