{"id":15519,"date":"2025-11-14T01:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=15519"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:02:07","slug":"hobsons-bay-ran-red-light-at-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2025\/11\/14\/hobsons-bay-ran-red-light-at-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"HOBSONS BAY: Ran red light at Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Running a red light is a bad and dangerous idea at the best of times, let alone when driving unlicensed and under the influence of drugs.<br>Westgate Highway Patrol officers spotted a black Holden Commodore sedan driving through a red light on Francis St in Brooklyn about 10.30pm Thursday (Novg. 13).<br>The vehicle was pulled over and it is alleged the driver, a 35-year-old Bacchus Marsh man, was found to be unlicensed.<br>It is also alleged the driver claimed he ran the red light to rush his passenger to a local hospital \u2026 despite the hospital being in the opposite direction.<br>The driver then allegedly tested positive to an oral fluid test indicating drugs in his system.<br>The Holden was impounded at a cost of $999.52.<br>The driver is expected to be charged on summons with running a red light, drug driving and driving unlicensed related offences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running a red light is a bad and dangerous idea at the best of times, let alone when driving unlicensed and under the influence of drugs.Westgate Highway Patrol officers spotted a black Holden Commodore sedan driving through a red light on Francis St in Brooklyn about 10.30pm Thursday (Novg. 13).The vehicle was pulled over and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15522,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519\/revisions\/15522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}