{"id":475635,"date":"2026-05-31T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475635\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:23:10","slug":"motorist-recorded-driving-over-140km-h-in-100-zone-in-co-wickow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475635\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorist recorded driving over 140km\/h in 100 zone in Co Wickow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorist was recorded driving 141 km\/h in a 100 km\/h zone in Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow, as part of the Bank Holiday speeding operation.<\/p>\n<p>The operation, which began on Thursday, has seen 56 people arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.<\/p>\n<p>100 drivers were detected for speeding offences during the second day of the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Over 115 drivers were detected holding a mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n<p>Other high speeds include 130km\/h in a 60km\/h zone on the R188, Drung, Co. Cavan, while a driver was recorded going 124km\/h in an 80km\/h zone on the N51 Dunmoe, Navan Co. Meath.<\/p>\n<p>Another motorist was driving 85km\/h in a 50km\/h zone on Watery Lane, Swords, Co. Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of fatalities on Irish roads to date this year is 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorist was recorded driving 141 km\/h in a 100 km\/h zone in Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow, as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-475635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475635","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=475635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}