A motorist with 169 double warrants valued at nearly R160 000 was arrested on Friday.
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According to the City of Cape Town, the suspect is listed third on the Traffic Service’s list of the top 100 motorists with outstanding warrants. He was one of 251 arrests made by the City’s law enforcement services during patrols along Main Road in St James. His 169 warrants amount to a total monetary value of R158 100.
‘The arrest is a timely reminder of our ongoing struggle with scofflaws who simply have no regard for the law,’ says Alderman JP Smith, mayoral committee member for safety and security. ‘Beyond just the staggering value of the unpaid fines, one needs to realise that it represents transgressions like speeding, overloading and other driving offences that put lives at risk, and unnecessarily so.’
‘As we prepare to extend the rollout of automated number plate recognition technology, I want to warn scofflaws that it’ll become increasingly more difficult to hide. The software will help us identify a range of things while in transit, from stolen vehicles to outstanding warrants and more, so I’d advise motorists to have their affairs in order.’
The motorist is due to appear in Blue Down’s Magistrates’ Court today.
The arrest follows just weeks after traffic services arrested another person on its top 100 list in Epping for 275 outstanding warrants worth R213 500. A third person was arrested in Hanover Park for 28 warrants totalling R22 600.
Traffic Services recorded 45 822 transgressions, impounded 250 public transport vehicles and executed 1 617 warrants of arrest just over the past week.
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