{"id":221192,"date":"2026-01-07T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/221192\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:45:08","slug":"motorist-caught-driving-more-than-twice-speed-limit-in-palmerston-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/221192\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorist caught driving more than twice speed limit in Palmerston North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBut we see the crashes these speeds can cause and nobody wants to be part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Harrison said a slight reduction in drivers\u2019 overall speed could have a significant impact on the number of deaths on the country\u2019s roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIf we lower our speed on the roads from an average of 102km\/h to 98km\/h then we estimate it would save 52 lives every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s simple. Slow down. Please.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Illegal driving activity caught by police recently:<\/p>\n<p>A drunk driver blew 854mcg of alcohol per litre of breath, which is more than three times the legal limitAnother was caught doing 110km\/h along Fitzherbert Ave (50km zone)A driver did 124km\/h in the 80km zone near BunnythorpeOne driver was caught doing 133km\/h leaving the Sanson townshipAnother went 132km\/h heading into Ashhurst in the rainA driver was detected doing 144km\/h on the Te Ahu a Turanga Highway near Woodville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\">RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBut we see the crashes these speeds can cause and nobody wants to be part of that.\u201d Harrison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9525,82084,4731,4189,78,30505,50371,10509,130,59919,2510,111,43,139,529,69,1523,6292,4517,675,5352,20383,25093,20489,131,17251],"class_list":["post-221192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-caught","tag-concerning","tag-days","tag-driving","tag-in","tag-instances","tag-limit","tag-manawat","tag-more","tag-motorist","tag-multiple","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-palmerston","tag-past","tag-police","tag-reporting","tag-roads","tag-speed","tag-speeds","tag-than","tag-twice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221192","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=221192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}