A Zimbabwean taxi driver has been arrested near Mokopane on Monday for cramming his vehicle with 31 passengers - double the number the 15-s...
A Zimbabwean taxi driver has been arrested near Mokopane on Monday
for cramming his vehicle with 31 passengers - double the number the 15-seater
was meant to carry.
Limpopo
transport department officials were stunned when they stopped the 15-seater
Quantum on Monday.
"We were shocked it was overloaded. This is unacceptable, we
cannot have people using our roads without obeying the rules of the
roads," said departmental spokesperson Joshua Kwapa.
He
said the taxi driver, from Zimbabwe, was arrested and handed over the police so
that they could investigate his actions.
Kwapa
said police officers had found that 14 of the passengers did not have legal
documents to be in the country.
"Home
Affairs has been called in to detain those undocumented migrants who were
travelling from Zimbabwe to Gauteng," he said.
Kwapa
said police were busy with further investigations. The taxi driver faces
charges of reckless and negligent driving, and overloading a vehicle.
He
was due to appear in the Mokopane Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
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