Staff Reporter
A driver who demanded to be detained in a holding cell with a sea view of Umhlanga Beach was among 67 motorists arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in KwaZulu-Natal over two nights of Easter roadblocks, the provincial transport department said on Sunday.
In a statement issued by the office of the MEC for Transport and Human Settlements, the department said Road Traffic Inspectorate (RTI) officers arrested 27 motorists in operations in Umhlanga and Durban North on Friday, followed by another 40 arrests in Durban North on Saturday night.
The statement described a string of unusual encounters during the crackdown.
It said one woman, dressed in red, cried uncontrollably and insisted she had only “drunk tea after coming from the gym”, while another motorist allegedly “urinated on himself” before offering officers a bribe of between R500 and R1,200. The bribe was captured on a Facebook live stream.
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