Metro police chase and arrest speeding doctor on highway
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Johannesburg - Metro police officers chased a speeding doctor down the N12 after she failed to obey their order to pull over.
When she was finally cornered, the 32-year-old woman allegedly violated the officers’ rights by filming them without consent as soon as she alighted from her vehicle.
She arrested and taken into custody.
Ekurhuleni metro police spokesperson Kobeli Mokheseng said the woman was driving at 178km/h in a 120km/h zone on Sunday morning.
Mokheseng said the officers were monitoring the N12 freeway, at the Reading interchange, when a black Mercedes-Benz doing 178km/h approached.
A doctor has been arrested for speeding in Alberton.
The Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) has defended its Speed Enforcement Team after they arrested a doctor, despite her telling them she was rushing to work.
The 32-year-old woman was caught doing 178km/h in a 120km zone on the N12 at 06:45 on Saturday.
The EMPD said the doctor s vehicle did not display a portable flashing device signalling that she was a doctor-on-call.
A 32-year-old doctor rushing to work in her Mercedes-Benz was arrested for speeding by the Ekurhuleni Metro Police (EMPD) following a high-speed chase on Saturday morning.
She was one of three motorists caught by Speed Enforcement Unit members for driving over the stipulated speed limit in Alberton.