{"id":530403,"date":"2026-07-17T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/530403\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:03:08","slug":"man-driving-childs-ride-on-car-stopped-by-police-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/530403\/","title":{"rendered":"Man driving child&#8217;s ride-on car stopped by police in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A disqualified driver in South Australia will be summonsed to appear in court after he was stopped by police \u2013 operating a child\u2019s ride-on car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The homemade vehicle, emblazoned with a pink decal and black stickers, had fitted the motor of a mobility scooter into the body of a car for children. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The driver returned a positive result when submitted to a drug test. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He will be summonsed to appear in court at a later date. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The arrest follows the rollout of South Australia Police\u2019s new shadow patrol cars in Riverland from Tuesday to Thursday this week to deter dangerous driving. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">During the operation, police allegedly detected 25 drug drivers, issued 52 traffic expiation notices and defected 27 cars. Officers also issued 24 instant losses of licences and impounded two vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In another incident, a learner driver was clocked travelling at 127km\/h. He also tested positive for cannabis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The driver was issued an expiation notice for speeding and received a three-month instant loss of licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A disqualified driver in South Australia will be summonsed to appear in court after he was stopped by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-530403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530403","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=530403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}