{"id":84133,"date":"2026-06-27T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=84133"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:16:08","slug":"superior-east-opp-driver-charged-with-speeding-more-than-twice-the-speed-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/superior-east-opp-driver-charged-with-speeding-more-than-twice-the-speed-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Superior East OPP &#8211; Driver Charged with speeding more than twice the speed limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>A\u00a0driver is facing stunt driving charges after being stopped for travelling more than double the posted speed limit on Highway 17.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at approximately 11:25 a.m., a member of the Superior East Wawa detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop after observing a vehicle travelling at 185 kilometres per hour in a posted 90 km\/h speed zone.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the investigation, a 23-year-old male driver from Concord, Ontario, has been charged with Drive motor vehicle &#8211; perform stunt &#8211; excessive speed.<\/p>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice, Provincial Offences Court, on August 6, 2026, in Wawa.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was issued a 30-day Driver&#8217;s Licence Suspension and the rental vehicle was impounded for 14 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0driver is facing stunt driving charges after being stopped for travelling more than double the posted speed limit on Highway 17. On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at approximately 11:25 a.m., a member of the Superior East Wawa detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop after observing a vehicle travelling at 185 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 08:04:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84134,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84133\/revisions\/84134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}