{"id":580792,"date":"2026-08-02T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580792\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:04:09","slug":"motorist-recorded-driving-182km-h-in-100-zone-in-co-leitrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580792\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorist recorded driving 182km\/h in 100 zone in Co Leitrim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorist was caught driving 182km\/h in a 100 zone on the N4 Moher, Aughamore, Co. Leitrim, as over 2540 drivers have been caught speeding over the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this weekend&#8217;s Roads Policing Operation, 88 people were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Other high speeds include a driver going 113 km\/h in an 80 km\/h zone on the N2 Drumcaw in Co Monaghan.<\/p>\n<p>A motorist was caught driving 101 km\/h in a 50 km\/h zone on the Dublin Road in Galway.<\/p>\n<p>Another driver was going 96 km\/h in a 60 km\/h zone on the Navan Road in Dublin 15.<\/p>\n<p>Just over 270 drivers were detected holding a mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n<p>So far, one person has died in a crash over the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of fatalities on Irish roads to date this year is 109.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorist was caught driving 182km\/h in a 100 zone on the N4 Moher, Aughamore, Co. Leitrim, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-580792","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\/580792","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=580792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}