Five men were arrested between March 14 and 15 in the Germiston, Bedfordview and Alberton areas by EMPD Speed Enforcement Unit officers.
They were charged with reckless and negligent driving.
In the Bedfordview area on the N3 highway north, between Gillooly’s Interchange and the Linksfield Road off-ramp, officers targeted speedsters on March 14.
Officers arrested a 24-year-old driver of a Toyota sedan at 7am for clocking 182km/h instead of 120km/h.
He cited rushing to work as his reason for speeding.
The second 31-year-old offender was stopped at 8.10am without any reason for speeding, driving a white Audi A5, was nabbed for doing 163km/h on that stretch of the highway.
Both drivers were taken to Bedfordview Police Station.
Meanwhile, at 10.20am in the Alberton area, the 33-year-old driver in a silver Toyota Corolla, who claimed that he was rushing home, was handcuffed for clocking 176km/h instead of 120km/h on the N12 highway east, between the Reading Interchange and Voortrekker Road off-ramp.
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He was escorted to Alberton Police Station.
Then on March 15 in the Germiston area, on the N3 highway south, between the Geldenhuys Interchange and the Rand Airport off-ramp, two drivers, one in an LDV and the other a five-door sedan, were arrested.
The drivers, aged 23 and 24 respectively, were both stopped for clocking 169km/h.
They were arrested at 7.30am and 10.28am and taken to the Germiston Police Station.
All five detained suspects are expected to appear in the Germiston and Palm Ridge magistrate’s courts soon.
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