R300 ambush causing outrage on Facebook

According to a post that has been circulating on Facebook for the past week, a mother and infant were the victims of an ambush tactic that was played out on the R300 between Stock Road and Jakes Gerwel Drive in Cape Town.

According to a post that has been circulating on Facebook for the past week,

a mother and infant were the victims of an ambush tactic that was played out on the R300 between Stock Road and Jakes Gerwel Drive in Cape Town.

The post says that on Monday night, the anonymous woman was driving with her infant, when she hit a object that had been placed in the road by robbers, hoping to stop unsuspecting drivers, pulling them off the freeway.

The car’s tyre burst, the car swerved and it flipped over onto its roof.

A witness said, “Although the car rolled, none of the windows broke so there was no time for (the robbers) to get into the car and rob them.

“The family was on their way from Port Elizabeth to pick up someone in Cape Town and then make their way to Klawer.”

No one was injured in the accident.

Pictures were posted on the Proudly Lentegeur 7785 Facebook page.

Outrage ensued when no police or law enforcement seemed to be perturbed by the obvious threat in the area.

The City’s Safety and Security boss, JP Smith, said to the Daily Voice; “We are very concerned about the incident [if it did happen] but that area has not been a hotspot until now. It was always the N2 before and after the R300, the R300 between Heinz Park and Mitchells Plain and then towards Delft,” he explained.

“If the information proves credible I will inform officers to adapt their operation strategy to include that stretch.

“In the last months we have dramatically reduced the number of incidents, from between four to seven a week, to just one.

“We have CCTV cameras with motion detection and night vision that can pick up when these guys place things on the road.

“But there are blindspots and if the criminals have noticed this we must work at it.”