A storeroom belonging to Lenasia South resident, Wilson Simelane, and a neighbouring wall were recently damaged when a vehicle crashed into it.
According to reports Simelane and his sons were watching TV at his home on the corner of Sheffield and Balken streets, when they heard a loud bang. When they went outside to investigate they saw a crashed car, with three occupants inside and witnessed the driver making a run for it into a nearby veld. It later emerged that the car belonged to one of the occupants.
According to Simelane, the occupants of the car had been intoxicated, which brings the question to mind, could the driver also have been under the influence of alcohol?
Also read: Shacks burn at Joe Slovo informal settlement
To make matters worse, the police were called after the incident, but they never pitched up.
“I called the station at around 9.50pm, 20 minutes after the incident,” he said.
It is alleged the father of the car owner also arrived on the scene and promised to pay for the damage caused to Simelane’s storeroom and his neighbour’s wall. Two of the passengers in the car were rushed to hospital. Simelane and the driver’s father then headed to the police station.
“When we got to the police station, the officer on duty refused to open a case, but made affidavits that were stamped,” Simelane said.
Spokesperson of the Lenasia South SAPS, sergeant Khalipha Mvula advised Simelane to visit the station and lay a complaint if he is not happy with the service he received.
Speed humps
According to Simelane, this had not been the first time such an incident has taken place.
“There are always accidents at the stop street near my house mainly because the street signs are ignored,” he said.
He asked if someone needed to die before speed humps are put up on the road. Simelane says he has approached the local councillor about the situation.
Also WATCH: Bilal Combined School welcomes Bassiouni
“I fetched him from his office and brought him here, just so he could witness the unlawfulness of drivers at the stop street,” he said.
Councillor for the area, Vinay Choonie told the Rising Sun that he is aware of the problem and that a signed petition had been handed over to the Johannesburg Roads Agency ( JRA).
“That stop street is not the only problematic area, there are several others and we are aware of them. We have already referred the problem to the JRA,” Choonie said.
He said such problems were inherited from the previous administration.
“The city cannot fix things overnight, it is up to the JRA,” he said.
He, however, said that he had been engaging with JMPD for more visibility in the area.
The post Alleged drunk driver crashes into storeroom, police a no-show appeared first on Rising Sun Lenasia.