Court's tough stand on reckless driver welcomed
The Road Traffic Management Corporation has welcomed a sentence handed down to a motorist guilty of reckless‚ negligent and inconsiderate driving, says a TimesLIVE report. The Cullinan Magistrate’s Court sentenced Olayori Abdul Bakare to a fine of R10 000 or two years imprisonment. His driver's licence was suspended for five years.
Bakare was arrested for reckless and negligent driving on the notorious Moloto Road in December 2012‚ the road agency said yesterday, adding ‘the court noted that many people have lost their lives on Moloto Road and driver misbehaviour cannot be tolerated’.
‘The courts need to hand down stiff sentences regularly to reinforce the message of zero tolerance to inconsiderate and reckless driving‚’ the agency said.
‘Too many South Africans die needlessly on the road because of the unacceptable negligent conduct of some drivers.’
Last year‚ government announced a planned R3.7bn upgrade of the entire 139km stretch of the R573 (Moloto Road) over the next five years. The narrow pot-holed stretch of road transports around 50 000 people a day from Limpopo and Mpumalanga to their jobs in Gauteng.
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