LETTER: Taxi carnage swept under the carpet
I have never ever seen a Metro traffic cop catch a taxi for a moving violation — are the traffic police afraid to take on the taxi industry?
25 June 2019 - 16:39
A couple weeks ago there was a horror crash on the road to Durban; multiple vehicles including two taxis, multiple deaths. I drove by the accident scene, it made me sick to see the bodies, strewn all over the road and median. Two days ago 24 taxi passengers died instant deaths as they were hit head on by a bus.
Not a big deal, I guess, as no one raised an eyebrow or made even a serious comment. A day or two later another couple people were snuffed out in a taxi collision — again no comment other than we mourn the needless loss of life or some other banal, inane comment by some anonymous official...
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