16 December 2009
The Minister of Community Safety, Advocate Lennit Max, expressed his shock and anger after a taxi, apparently driven by a 15 year old boy, overturned in Kraaifontein at 08h20 this morning, killing two female passengers and slightly injuring eight others.
The driver was arrested and detained in the police cells. Max expressed his condolences to the families of the deceased. Max said that he found it shocking that the owners of the taxi placed the lives of people at great risk by allowing the young driver to be behind the wheel.
“This will not be tolerated,” he said.
Max said that police and community safety will leave no stone unturned to get answers to why the owner of the crashed taxi kept the vehicle, which was suspended in 2007 for not being roadworthy, without an operating license, on the road.
Max said that traffic officers will immediately remove any taxi or bus that is found to be not roadworthy or does not have an operating license, from the roads. Law enforcement will show zero tolerance to any offender on the roads as the lives of all road users are at great risk.
The Department of Community Safety as well as the Department of Transport and Public Works will continue to ensure the safety of all road users through their joint safely home campaign.
For more information please contact:
Julian Jansen
Tel: 021 483 3873
Cell: 082 726 9334
Fax: 021 483 3874
Issued by: Department of Community Safety, Western Cape Provincial Government
16 December 2009
Source: Western Cape Provincial Government (http://www.capegateway.gov.za/)
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