Worn tyres are damaging our country’s roads
We all know that potholes on poorly maintained roads wear down our car’s tyres – but we’ve now found out our worn tyres may be damaging the road.
While many South Africans may regard this as an absurd statement, such a charge does exist.
A traffic fine of R125 issued for this infringement in Nellmapius, Pretoria, is doing the rounds on Facebook. It has left many social media users either surprised or hot under the collar. Cornelia van Niekerk, the owner of Fines4U, a company that specialises in the legal reduction of fines, referred to charge code 2839 of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences regulations, saying it made provision for just this.
She quoted the relevant text in the code: “A vehicle equipped with worn-decayed tyres that could damage the road or be a danger to other road users.”
Van Niekerk said it might sound wrong, but the official was not mistaken when issuing the fine under this code. However, she questioned whether smooth tyres would do such damage: “It would only do damage if you were driving on rims, because then it is metal on tar.”
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