{"id":481210,"date":"2026-06-03T16:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481210\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:22:10","slug":"driver-travelling-at-174km-h-one-of-4650-caught-speeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481210\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver travelling at 174km\/h one of 4,650 caught speeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorist travelling at 174km\/h in a 100km\/h zone was among the almost 4,650 people caught speeding over the bank holiday weekend, with 209 drivers arrested for driving under the influence.<\/p>\n<p>A roads policing operation was in place from 28 May to yesterday, 2 June.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said that almost 4,650 drivers were found to be speeding during the operation including one motorist clocked at 174km\/h in a 100km\/h zone on N83, Baile Chl\u00e1ir, Co Galway, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Another driver was detected travelling at 129km\/h in a 80km\/h zone on the R248 at Stradbally, Co Laois, while a motorist was clocked at 96km\/h in a 60km\/h zone on the N4 at Drishoge, Co Roscommon yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A driver was found to be driving at 84km\/h in a 50km\/h zone on the Drummartin Link Road in Dublin 14.<\/p>\n<p>Since Thursday, 510 people were detected holding a mobile phone while driving or not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed reported that there were four fatalities and 12 collisions that resulted in serious injury during the operation period.<\/p>\n<p>All road users are encouraged to exercise caution on the roads, as the number of people killed on Irish roads so far this year stands at 73.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorist travelling at 174km\/h in a 100km\/h zone was among the almost 4,650 people caught speeding over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-481210","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\/481210","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=481210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}