{"id":195812,"date":"2025-12-22T04:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195812\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:02:07","slug":"southland-police-arrest-gore-driver-four-times-over-limit-at-7-30am-after-hens-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195812\/","title":{"rendered":"Southland police arrest Gore driver four times over limit at 7.30am after hen\u2019s do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">A breath test revealed the driver was almost four times the legal limit  after leaving a hen\u2019s do with little sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">A 38-year-old woman is due to appear in Gore District Court on January 21 and has been issued with a 28-day driving suspension notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Acting Senior Sergeant Christopher Rigby said police were disappointed to see poor choices  when people drink and drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe driver was seen driving erratically and it\u2019s incredible that no one was hurt on the road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe always encourage people to sort sober drivers, rideshare or taxi if they have plans to drink. There\u2019s no excuse to drinking and driving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A breath test revealed the driver was almost four times the legal limit after leaving a hen\u2019s do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[121157,74,14466,11924,1975,1559,6309,39687,19552,3011,56523,35487,50371,1329,11692,111,43,139,2551,69,1523,675,3109,15488,14005],"class_list":["post-195812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-730am","tag-after","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-at","tag-called","tag-do","tag-drinkdriving","tag-driver","tag-four","tag-gore","tag-hens","tag-limit","tag-member","tag-nearly","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-police","tag-public","tag-southland","tag-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}