Photo: Limpopo Department of Transport
Limpopo Public Transport Unit officers this morning stopped a 22-seater cross-border taxi with double the number of permitted passengers on board, reports Polokwane Review.
According to the spokesperson for the department of transport, Matome Moremi-Taueutsoala, the bus was stopped on the N1 next to Snake Park just outside Polokwane. The bus was en route to Zimbabwe from Johannesburg.
Photo: Limpopo Department of Transport
“We have called cross-border officials to authenticate cross-border papers but the driver doesn’t have a permit to drive this kind of vehicle,” he said.
There were 44 people on board, seven of them children.
Photo: Limpopo department of transport
Moremi-Taueutsoala said this was totally unacceptable and that traffic officers would continue to crack down on those who broke the law.