Cape Town Driver Behaving Badly Gets Busted on Social Media
Following the spate of photographs posted on social media of bad drivers in South Africa (and those littering out of their car windows), a driver for a food company has quickly experienced the wrath of social-media-using drivers and been suspended from his job. Facebook user Duane Michael Dillon posted on Tuesday about the incident in Fish Hoek, […]
Following the spate of photographs posted on social media of bad drivers in South Africa (and those littering out of their car windows), a driver for a food company has quickly experienced the wrath of social-media-using drivers and been suspended from his job.
Facebook user Duane Michael Dillon posted on Tuesday about the incident in Fish Hoek, Cape Town, including an image showing the driver’s face.
“This Mugg & Bean driver decided that he will no longer wait,” he wrote. ” This genius decided he would continue his journey in the other lane. Heading head on into oncoming traffic. And then expects everybody else to reverse out of his way. When I confront him on his blatant direguard for traffic LAW he promptly tells me to f*** off.”
Mugg & Bean is owned by Famous Foods, which also owns Wimpy, Juicy Lucy and numerous other food companies – and which, according to its website, saw its logistics fleet travel six million kilometers on roads in 2014.
The coffee chain posted a statement on Facebook on Wednesday saying the company does not condone reckless driving, and that the driver had been suspended pending an investigation.
Dillon’s post on Facebook got almost 1,000 shares, with many people commenting on the state of driving in South Africa.
One user posted a link to a Carte Blanche programme collecting information about bad taxi drivers.
The Fish Hoek incident comes only days after the Road Traffic Management Corporation released a report painting a grim picture of bad behaviour and negative attitudes displayed by road users in South Africa.
It identified alcohol abuse, dangerous overtaking, vehicle fitness as well as pedestrian negligence as five major contributory factors to crashes over the past five months.
It said that between April and August, the country had 4,528 crashes and 5,433 fatalities, with the major causes of accidents being alcohol and speed.
Several steps were recommended, including heightened and better patrolling of the top six traffic corridors in the country, as well as the reintroduction of the Dräger alcohol screening device, whose use was curtailed after a court case four years ago.