next thing, confiscate hunting horses! that'd stop them soon enough!
Go drinking and driving and you can take your car in South Africa. This is the story that taken the country by storm. Remember drink and drive was
a national sport till a few years back.
Drink your three beers and lose your car.
This is the message from tough-talking Minister of Transport Bheki Cele, who has vowed that traffic cops will not allow "killing machines to get
onto our roads" during the festive season and beyond.
Cele said he would be meeting the provincial head of the Asset Forfeiture Unit to make sure that KwaZulu-Natal became the first province to take
advantage of a precedent-setting ruling by a Western Cape judge, which recently gave the unit the powers to confiscate cars driven by drunkards.
Cele was speaking on Friday at the Ntwentweni toll plaza outside Port Shepstone on the South Coast, where he unveiled the department's summer
holiday road safety programme aimed at curbing road fatalities.
Hailing the judgment as ground-breaking
Hailing the judgment as ground-breaking, Cele said the ruling had enhanced efforts to deal with recalcitrant motorists.
Asked what would happen if the drunken driver did not own the car, Cele said: "The law says if a car is being used as a weapon to commit a crime,
it shall be confiscated.
"Whether it is a company car or is owned by somebody else does not matter.
"The driver will have to go and sort that out. That is his or her own business."
On the fact that most cars on the road were in fact owned by banks because they had been bought on credit, Cele added: "Whether the bank takes us
to court or not, we will cross that bridge when we get there.
"This judgment has set a precedent and police have to implement the law.
"What is important to note is that the process of arresting a drunken motorist has always been the same. The difference now is that there is a
good ending to it."
Cele said the primary goal was to intensify high visibility patrols, increase law enforcement on critical offences, and ensure the integrated and
co-ordinated efforts of all law enforcement agencies.
"We have also just received 189 car verification devices, which will enable our enforcement officers to scan your driver's licence and
verify your particulars."
Operation Juggernaut, targeting unlicensed and unroadworthy heavy vehicles, and unlicensed and drunken drivers, would soon be launched.
Government taking the fun out of motoring again, next thing will be no guns in the car.
Only kidding by the way.
sounds fair to me... it'll hopefully make some people think twice, and if not, at least make it hard to re offend.
next thing, confiscate hunting horses! that'd stop them soon enough!
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Originally posted by Peteff
Government taking the fun out of motoring again, next thing will be no guns in the car.
Only kidding by the way.