{"id":466380,"date":"2026-06-08T05:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/466380\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:18:10","slug":"greens-co-leader-marama-davidson-apologises-for-speeding-on-sh1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/466380\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens co-leader Marama Davidson apologises for speeding on SH1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson has apologised for speeding on the Kapiti Expressway on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram story posted by fellow Green MP H\u016bhana Lyndon, Davidson could be seen driving at 121km\/h, 11km\/h over the 110km\/h speed limit for that stretch of SH1.<\/p>\n<p>The video has since disappeared from Lyndon&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/marama-davidson-speeding-QWHY26KV6VAMRPKEZB5CBIABKY.jpg\" alt=\"Screengrabs from the video showing Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson going 121km\/h on SH1.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Screengrabs from the video showing Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson going 121km\/h on SH1. (Source: H\u016bhana Lyndon \/ Instagram)<\/p>\n<p>Davidson made a post addressing it last night, saying &#8220;Mo taku h\u0113&#8221;, which could be roughly translated from te reo M\u0101ori to mean &#8220;my mistake, I apologise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I completely accept this was my error, and not one I take lightly. We have speed limits for a reason, and the safety of my passenger and other road users is not negotiable,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A teachable moment for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Green Party has advocated against raising the speed limits of both highways and residential roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including a dramatic police chase, and a footballer\u2019s on-field collapse during an international match   (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson has apologised for speeding on the Kapiti Expressway on Sunday. In an Instagram&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[69543,42,43,135,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-466380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-green-party","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466380","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=466380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}