An EMPD officer had to receive medical attention after being bitten by a speeding motorist.
The incident took place at 8.30am, on Saturday, along Old Heidelberg Road near Rondebult.
The road is an 80km/h zone and the 35-year-old male driver of a blue VW Citi Golf was clocked at 111km/h.
The Citi Golf driver resisted arrest and in the process, sunk his teeth deep into the arresting officer’s right arm which necessitated medical attention at Union Hospital.
“The aggressive driver was locked up at the Alberton Police Station where he was charged with excessive speeding, assault and resisting arrest,” said Lieut-Col Wilfred Kgasago, the spokesman for the EMPD.
The man was expected to appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court on April 11.
In other speeding incidents on the same day, EMPD officers nabbed a 31-year-old man driving a Hyundai H1 on the N3 highway southbound, near the Rand Airport turn-off.
He was clocked doing 178km/h in a 120km/h zone.
The man provided no reason for the offence and was charged at the Germiston Police Station with reckless and negligent driving.
He was released after posting bail of R1 000.
He was expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on April 11.
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