On Monday morning, a schoolboy from Delft was bumped by a taxi while on his way to school in Belhar when the taxi jumped a red robot at the intersection of Adam Tas and Stellenbosch Arterial.
Siphesihle Lahliwe from the Delft Neighbourhood Watch said the learner survived and even went to school after the accident.
Lahliwe says “We as the neighbourhood watch take the learners and pedestrians across the road in the morning and in the afternoon. We stood by the yellow line and were taking the children over the road when the taxi came fast and bumped the child and left only to load other passengers by the stop. These taxi drivers have made the area opposite the Belhar fire station a taxi rank and they always want to jump the robot and don’t want to stop. They have no respect for us as neighbourhood watches and do not even listen to us, we need assistance from the traffic services or Law Enforcement.”
Spokesperson for the City Traffic and Services, Kevin Jacobs said: “The City’s Traffic Services deploys two traffic wardens each morning to assist learners crossing Stellenbosch Arterial between Adam Tas and Symphony Way. This incident was not reported to the department.”
According to community members there is no traffic assistance on the intersection at the corners of Adam Tas Street and Stellenbosch Arterial. There are two traffic officials standing on a pedestrian 100 meters away from the saint intersection corners of Adam Tas Street and Stellenbosch Arterial direction of Symphony Road but there is totally no traffic controller or traffic assistance on the intersection.
Delft community says there is totally no traffic controller's only neighbourhood watch trying to take control of that intersection and even that neighborhood watch can't handle these taxi operators with their reckless and negligent driving attitude.
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