Presidential Protection Unit convoys continue to pose a road safety threat for all motorists and their operation should be reviewed, says the AA. Picture: 123RF/radututa
The AA says it will communicate with the ministers of police and transport for an urgent review of the so-called blue-light brigades. Section 58 of the National Road Traffic Act permits drivers of emergency vehicles such as traffic officers and duly authorised drivers, as well as a “person appointed in terms of the SA Police Service Act who drives a vehicle in the carrying out of his or her duties”, to disregard the a road traffic signs. Regulation 176 of the NRTA further states motorists should give an absolute right of way to a vehicle sounding a device or bell or displaying an identification lamp.