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According to AA, the statement indirectly says that motorists with outstanding traffic tickets will be arrested, a major violation of SA laws.
“The only time a road user can be stopped on the roadside is if an arrest warrant is issued against their name. Preventing someone from continuing on a trip due to a pending traffic ticket amounts to an arrest without following due process, ”says the Association.
RTMC spokesman Simon Zwane told SowetanLIVE’s sister publication TimesLIVE on Friday that only motorists with arrest warrants against them will be pulled over on the side of the road, contradicting the RTMC press release to earlier this week it said that “those who are found with pending traffic tickets will not be able to enter Continue.”
Drivers with arrest warrants in their name will be allowed to continue their trips only after they have paid outstanding fines, which in some cases will be possible on the side of the road, he said.
The AA says that instead of the RTMC looking for new ways to generate income, it should focus its energies on improving the education of road users and protecting road users by enforcing the laws as they are written.
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