Metro police impound unroadworthy taxi after it skips red light
JOHANNESBURG – Metro police impound minibus taxi for disregarding a red traffic light.
Metro police officers impounded an unlicensed and unroadworthy minibus taxi on Simmonds Street in Johannesburg on 12 February.
This after the driver had skipped a red light.
This 👇👇unlicenced and unroadworthy Minibus taxi was impounded by @JoburgMPD Operations officers after the driver disregarded a red traffic light along Simmonds street in the InnerCity.
Restoring #LawAndOrder in the InnerCity pic.twitter.com/FWqyJtJFYh
— AskTheChief01 #BuyaMthetho 🔥 (@David_S_Tembe) February 11, 2019
Videos of taxi drivers disregarding the rules of the road have gone viral and some motorists are calling upon law enforcement officers to deal with them as they put the lives of innocent people at risk.
@AsktheChiefJMPD Hi chief, this is the evidence of taxis and other motorists dring in the yellow line every morning between william nicol onramp and main road bridge and the some more thereafter towards rivonia. Number plates are clearly visible, please engage with them, thanks pic.twitter.com/FrPTpyMWxd
— Cllr David Foley (@cllrfoleyward94) February 1, 2019
@AsktheChiefJMPD Hi chief a regular occurence on Witkoppen road before Main Road M71 close to the clay oven, from 16h00 to 18h00. pic.twitter.com/Ljwm3d1CrP
— Cllr David Foley (@cllrfoleyward94) February 6, 2019
A Twitter user posted a picture of a taxi driver driving into oncoming traffic.
https://twitter.com/NickR100/status/1093580360154337280
Metro police have been impounding taxis in Joburg for being unroadworthy and unlicensed.
Our @JoburgMPD Operations officers impounded 7x unroadworty and unlicensed vehicles which included
🚐4x Minibus Taxis
🚚1× Truck
⛟1x Bakkie &
🚗1x Sedan around Orange Farm , Finetown and Vlakfontein area.#SaferJoburg #ZeroTolerance pic.twitter.com/6CABhroqjI— AskTheChief01 #BuyaMthetho 🔥 (@David_S_Tembe) February 1, 2019
#BuyaMthetho 👮♀️👮♂️
8x unroadworthy & unlicensed Minibus Taxis impounded by our @JoburgMPD SPU officers at R55 & Main Rd in MidrandCompliance is not negotiable#SaferJoburg pic.twitter.com/aPDy9A1qFX
— AskTheChief01 #BuyaMthetho 🔥 (@David_S_Tembe) January 28, 2019
Related article:
https://northeasterntribune.co.za/214112/jmpd-to-keep-impounding-taxis-while-eff-calls-for-special-rights/
https://northeasterntribune.co.za/214422/operation-buya-mthetho-wins-hearts-with-clampdown-on-bad-driver-behaviour/
