Bus operators worried about taxi wars

Shot left! No, jigga right, aah sh*t!
TWO drivers pulling this container were
lucky to escape with only bruises after
the driver somehow missed the entire
bridge on the N1 leading to the M5
highway in Cape Town and plunged
down to the bottom.
ER24 paramedics found the guys out
of the truck and holding their heads
under the bridge.
They were taken to the Vincent Palotti
How not to pick
a lane when
driving in Cape
Town's dense
traffic. Two
drivers were
injured in this
crash, but
luckily not
seriously. Many
more drivers
who saw the
photo almost
ruptured
themselves
laughing.
Hospital.
The highway had to be closed to
remove the truck that was blocking two
lanes, delaying the Cape Town traffic by
hours. - Driver Reporter.
Drunk and disordery man thanks police for the bed by stealing cop car!
A man who was detained at the
George police station overnight for
being drunk and disordely stole a
cop car and drove off when he was
released the next morning.
Romantha Botha reports for Die
Burger Police spokesman Captain
Malcolm Pojie said officers traced
the vehicle to the N2 near
Mosselbay and set up a roadblock.
The suspect first tried to swerve
aroudn then tried crashing through
two police vehicles and a truck
parked.
“The stolen police vehicle left the
road and ended up in a ditch,” said
Pojie. The man crawled from the
wreck and did not try to run any
further.
He was treated for minor injuries at
the Riversdale Hospital and charged
with theft of a motor vehicle, and
reckless and negligent driving.
- Driver Reporter
Stolen trucks
for stolen steel
A JEALOUS business rival may have
alerted Gau-teng police to arrest a
Johannesburg millionaire businessman
and 1 0 drivers at a factory in Leondale.
The factory was filled with were loads
of hijacked steel and petrol while the
yard was full of stolen trucks.
“They were arrested after a tip-off
about a truck hijacked with steel,” police
spokesperson Warrant Officer Kay
Makhubela told Sapa.
He said police found the steel when
they arrived at the factory as well as a
number trucks in the yard which had
been stolen. One had been hijacked in
Welkom and another in Durban.
Speaking from the scene, Makhubela
said it appeared that there was also a
facility to drain stolen petrol.
The millionaire businessman owns a
trailer and transporting company that
moves goods around the country and on
the continent.
Yesterday morning police were trying
to verify the ownership of the vehicles
on the properly and taking an inventory
of the goods.
The 1 0 drivers and their boss will
appeared in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s
Court in Alberton on Monday 1 6 March
and the case was postponed.
With a ready market for processes
metals, the theft of especially metals
such as steel and copper happens around
the world, with the stolen goods shipped
in containers to China. Transporting
containers filled with this loot is as
dangerous as stealing it, as hi-jackers
await en route. — Sapa-Driver.
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