A sudden northerly gust that shook a field of barley in Co Laois turned out to be a BMW doing 172kp\/h.<\/p>\n
The car swept past a roadside field on the M7 motorway at 52kp\/h above the speed limit, according to Laois garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
In a social media post earlier this week which was titled The BMW That Shook the Barley, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Laois\/Offaly said: “Met \u00c9ireann issued no advanced warning for the sudden northerly gust that swept through Laois yesterday morning\u2026 It turned out to be a BMW X5 traveling at 172kp\/h.”<\/p>\n
The motorist was arrested at the scene on August bank holiday Monday and has been charged to appear before Portlaoise District Court.<\/p>\n
The driver was caught during a radar speed check by the Laois Roads Policing Unit (RPU), as part of the bank holiday weekend national road safety operation.<\/p>\n
Nationally, 5,054 drivers were caught speeding over the course of the policing operation which commenced last Thursday and concluded on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Additionally, 188 people were arrested for driving under the influence, while 353 people were caught for using a mobile phone and 104 people were found not wearing seatbelts. <\/p>\n
The policing operation involved both statutory mandatory intoxicant testing and regular, high-visibility policing checkpoints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sudden northerly gust that shook a field of barley in Co Laois turned out to be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[248592,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,38909,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-623298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-laois-nationalist","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-leinster","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117047899344169868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}