While festive season is a time for celebration, some people seem to be showing far too much enthusiasm after a driver of a Range Rover was caught climbing on top of the vehicle’s roof while driving, and hanging out of it.
This incident went viral on social media as the motorist appears to steer the vehicle using his feet and arms. As the car swerves wildly into the oncoming traffic lane, the driver quickly returns to the wheel.
The driver, who was identified by the Road Traffic Management Corporation’s national anti-corruption unit as a businessman from Marble Hall in Limpopo, has been arrested since and charged with reckless driving.
This comes at a time when the 2021 Preliminary Festive Season Road Statistics finds itself in the spotlight. South Africa has recorded a massive increase in road crashes with multiple fatalities at the mid-point of the festive season, resulting in 17 crashes this year, compared to seven over the same period in 2020.
More than 2 600 drivers have been arrested since the beginning of the festive season.
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