No tolerance for unroadworthy vehicles this festive season
If your vehicle is impounded, you will have to have it fixed and have it taken for roadworthy tests before being allowed on the road again.
Your car will be impounded this festive season if found to be unroadworthy, the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) has warned.
As part of its festive season road safety campaign, RTMC will conduct roadblocks along many of the country’s key arterial routes and national roads.
Police manning roadblocks will not hesitate to impound cars failing to comply with the necessary roadworthy criteria.
According to RTMC, defects which could see your car impounded include defective brake lights and standard car lights, worn tyres and cracked windscreens.
Road users should ensure their vehicles are in a roadworthy condition to avoid having their cars impounded.
A stern warning was also issued that motorists’ licence discs should be up to date.
Between November 11 and December 5 the National Traffic Police conducted roadblocks between the N2 at Pongola and the N3 at Pietermaritzburg, during which more than 1 900 vehicles were inspected.
RTMC spokesperson, Simon Zwane, said they had issued 1 399 traffic fines on this stretch of road, while 17 truck drivers were arrested for offences ranging from drunken driving, to reckless and negligent driving and fraud.
“The last thing anybody wants to experience is to have their trip interrupted by foreseeable and preventable factors. Our operations are starting to yield the desired results in terms of clamping down on unroadworthy vehicles. Officers will not hesitate to take vehicles with defects off the road or impound them,” Zwane said.
If your vehicle is impounded, you will have to have it fixed and have it taken for roadworthy tests before being allowed on the road again.
“This will be in addition to traffic fines and impoundment fees,” said Zwane.
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