{"id":295530,"date":"2019-01-28T08:23:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T06:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=295530"},"modified":"2019-01-28T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T06:24:23","slug":"heres-why-you-shouldnt-risk-speeding-through-the-free-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/295530\/heres-why-you-shouldnt-risk-speeding-through-the-free-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why you shouldn&#8217;t risk speeding through the Free State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Free State has implemented tough new rules for motorists who are caught speeding in the province.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netwerk24.com\/Nuus\/Algemeen\/spoedvrate-pasop-vir-vrystaat-20190126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapport<\/a><\/strong>, the Director of Public Prosecutions has banned all diversion programmes for speeding offences where a motorist exceeded the limit by 30km\/h in urban areas and 40km\/h on freeways in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Diversion programmes aim to bring offenders to an understanding that their traffic offence is not only a criminal offence, but may lead to the death or serious injury of themselves, passengers and other people.<\/p>\n<p>The programme typically consists of several interventions &#8211; such as a written traffic offences assignment &#8211; with successful completion typically leading to the criminal case being withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>The effective banning of these programmes now means that speeding motorists now face up to three years of prison and\/or the automatic\u00a0suspensions of licences.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Rapport, Free State traffic spokesperson, Hillary Mophethe, said that officers in her department had been briefed on the change.<\/p>\n<p>She added that her department was well-managed and was prepared\u00a0for the expected influx of cases and the number of time officers will need to testify in court.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/295246\/these-are-the-best-cars-in-south-africa-across-every-major-category\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These are the best cars in South Africa \u2013 across every major category<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Free State has implemented tough new rules for motorists who are caught speeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":87188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-295530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295530"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295550,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295530\/revisions\/295550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}