Yet another attack on Cape Town’s N2
After several incidents that had taken place on the N2 near Cape Town International Airport, security had reportedly been stepped up. The police also arrested six people who were allegedly suspects in this crime debacle. Unfortunately now the N2 robbers have striked again. This time the victim was a 29-year-old electrical engineer making his way to work in Montague Gardens from Somerset West.
He said that it was too late to swerve and miss the bricks. After hitting bricks under a bridge near Macassar, he kept driving until sparks flew from the rim of the front wheel. The tyre had stripped off. “I know what happens to people who stop along the N2,” The victim said after the ordeal in which he was attacked by two men, stabbed in the shoulder and robbed.
He had continued to drive after his vehicle hit the bricks, but after a while he couldn’t drive any further. He had to stop and change his tyre, when a man approached him. “I tried to put up a fight, but the man behind me grabbed me and stabbed me in the right shoulder. At that stage, my adrenalin was pumping and I didn’t know I had been stabbed.”
“I stood up and ran from my car. As I was running, I felt a burning sensation coming from my shoulder. I touched it and felt blood. It was then that I realised I was stabbed,” he said.
The worst is that he then tried to stop passing motorists, but no one would stop to help him. He ran into the centre of the road to try to stop a police van, which swerved around him and drove away.
“I can understand that people have reservations about stopping to help strangers, but not when those people are the police. I called 10111. I said I needed help, that I had been stabbed and that I was standing along the N2.” The operator then told him there was nothing he could do. He had to call his wife to help him, who then took him to the hospital after she had arrived.
Police spokesman FC Van Wyk said the victim had filed a robbery complaint with the Somerset West police. It had been referred to the Macassar police for investigation. “I would advise him to go to the police station and file a charge,” Van Wyk said about the response he had received when he called 10111.
Here are tips for driving on the N2 and anti-hijacking tips you need to know as well as emergency numbers to call if you find yourself in a situation.