A South African Police Services court truck carrying prisoners to courts collided with a minibus taxi in Cape Town.
|||Cape Town - A South African Police Service truck carrying prisoners to courts collided with a minibus taxi and knocked down a traffic-light pole at the intersection of Klipfontein Road and Vanguard Drive this morning.
The collision, which took place shortly before 8am, caused a traffic snarl-up at the busy intersection.
None of the occupants of the police truck or the taxi were injured, said Cape Town traffic spokesman Richard Coleman.
By about 8.30am, another court truck had arrived at the scene and the prisoners were being transferred to it to continue their journey, Coleman said.
The collision was being investigated, said police liaison officer Lieutenant-Colonel André Traut.
Cape Argus