50 school kids forced into a 15-seater taxi, driver arrested

06 August 2015 - 14:58
By Tremaine Van Aardt and Gareth Wilson

A Patensie taxi driver who was transporting 50 schoolchildren inside a 15-seater minibus and arrested for overloading and speeding is expected to appear in court on Thursday. The 31-year-old driver‚ who police are not naming until he appears in court‚ was arrested on Wednesday after Patensie detective commander Lieutenant Loaan Steenkamp spotted the Toyota Quantum taxi speeding.

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