Traffic cops thwart hijackers of truck with R12m worth of goods
“The officers stopped the truck that was travelling on the N1 and instructed the driver to proceed to the Donkerhoek weighbridge. The driver, however, jumped off the truck, ran over the highway and entered an unknown red vehicle that sped off.”
National Traffic Police (NTP) managed to stop the hijacking of a truck with goods worth R12-million near Centurion on Monday.
Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) spokesperson Simon Zwane said swift action by alert members of the NTP thwarted the hijacking and robbery of the truck in Tshwane.
Zwane said the NTP motorcycle unit stopped the truck for overload control, on the N1 North between Botha Avenue and R21 and discovered that it has been hijacked.
“The traffic officers were on duty conducting overload control on the N1, R21 and N4 freeways on Monday when they spotted a white truck suspected of being overloaded.
“The officers stopped the truck that was travelling on the N1 and instructed the driver to proceed to the Donkerhoek weighbridge.
“The driver, however, jumped off the truck, ran over the highway and got into an unknown red vehicle that sped off.”
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Zwane said investigations led the officer on a discovery of a signal jammer inside the vehicle.
“The jammer had apparently been used to prevent the truck’s tracker from sending out a signal to indicate the location of the vehicle.”
He said a meat distribution company ascertained that the vehicle belonged to them and that their driver had been hijacked on the N14 between Krugersdorp and Pretoria.
“It was also established that a tracking company had called the owner of the truck to report that they could not pick up a signal from their truck.”
The truck and its contents have since been handed over to the police.
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