{"id":46153,"date":"2026-04-28T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/the-tmpd-public-transport-and-taxi-unit-impounded-38-public-transport-vehicles-for-violating-road-traffic-regulations\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:40:46","slug":"the-tmpd-public-transport-and-taxi-unit-impounded-38-public-transport-vehicles-for-violating-road-traffic-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/the-tmpd-public-transport-and-taxi-unit-impounded-38-public-transport-vehicles-for-violating-road-traffic-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"The TMPD Public Transport and Taxi Unit impounded 38 public transport vehicles for violating road traffic regulations."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TMPD Public Transport and Taxi Unit conducted road safety operations over the long weekend, resulting in the impoundment of 38 public transport vehicles for violating road traffic regulations. These actions were taken to ensure the safety of commuters and uphold standards of safety throughout the City of Tshwane <\/p>\n<p>In a separate operation, the TMPD Overload Control Unit targeted overloaded vehicles in Centurion and Akasia, stopping and inspecting 104 vehicles for weight and roadworthiness. Shockingly, a majority of these vehicles were found to be overloaded and unroadworthy, posing serious risk on the roads. <\/p>\n<p>The TMPD urges all vehicle owners and operators to adhere strictly to road traffic regulations and ensure that their vehicles are properly maintained and within legal weight limits to prevent accidents and ensure the safety of all road users.<\/p>\n<p>Issued by the TMPD Communication Unit&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77210&#038;page=the-tmpd-public-transport-and-taxi-unit-impounded-38-public-transport-vehicles-for-violating-road-traffic-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TMPD Public Transport and Taxi Unit conducted road safety operations over the long weekend, resulting in the impoundment of 38 public transport vehicles for violating road traffic regulations. These actions were taken to ensure the safety of commuters and uphold standards of safety throughout the City of Tshwane In a separate operation, the TMPD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/681798465_1425736756248381_413686126295439987_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1888,1327],"class_list":["post-46153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/681798465_1425736756248381_413686126295439987_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}