An EMPD Freeway Unit member ,busy with selection enforcement, last Thursday morning, along the N3 highway southbound, near the PPC Cement factory, stopped a VW Polo driver who was travelling in the emergency lane.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpon being requested to produce his driver\u2019s licence, the driver took off on foot, leaving the vehicle and his female passenger,\u201d said Wilfred Kgasago, spokesman for the metro.<\/p>
\u201cThe female passenger, who claimed that the runaway driver was just a friend, was arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n
As soon as the driver ran, the officer became suspicious and did a thorough check of the vehicle, and the results came back positive \u2013 the VW Polo was a hijacked vehicle taken from the owner in Yeoville, at gunpoint in June, this year.<\/p>
The arrested passenger, a woman in her mid-30s from Vosloorus, was locked up at the Germiston Police Station after being charged with possession of a stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n
She was expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court, last Friday.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, information at the disposal of the police is being used to track down the escaped driver.<\/p>\n
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