{"id":242084,"date":"2026-01-20T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/242084\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:56:11","slug":"learner-drivers-audi-seized-after-speeding-at-226km-h-in-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/242084\/","title":{"rendered":"Learner driver&#8217;s Audi seized after speeding at 226km\/h in Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A learner driver will be charged after allegedly speeding at nearly 230km\/h on a highway in Victoria on Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Nunawading Highway Patrol officers were carrying out speed checks on the Monash Freeway in Mulgrave when an Audi was allegedly detected travelling at 226km\/h in a 100km\/h zone around 3am.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, an L-plater, was stopped near Jacksons Rd and spoken to by police.<\/p>\n<p>He was accompanied by an adult passenger, as required by law, police said. However, the woman was allegedly a disqualified driver. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-audi-has-been-impounded-for-30-days-source-victoria-poli-32HDBZFDLRDUXK5LE75NQHFJPI.jpg\" alt=\"The Audi has been impounded for 30 days. (Source: Victoria Police)\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">The Audi has been impounded for 30 days. (Source: Victoria Police) (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Narre Warren man is expected to be charged with being an unaccompanied learner and speeding offences. <\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was impounded for 30 days at a cost of AU$1016 (NZ$1175).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A learner driver will be charged after allegedly speeding at nearly 230km\/h on a highway in Victoria on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-242084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242084","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=242084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}