Johannesburg, September 13: Two men were hijacked in separate incidents with their attackers using similar tactics to get their cars, Tembisa police said on Sunday.
The first man was hijacked on Modderfontein road in Rabie Ridge after stopping his car to assist what he thought was an injured man sprawled across the road ahead of him on Saturday night.
Captain Manyadza Ralidzhivha said the man was approaching an intersection when he noticed two men at the robot “pretending” to be assisting the one sprawled on the road.
“Thinking that the man was injured, he stopped his car and he suddenly saw a fourth man pointing a firearm at him. The three who had been in the centre of the road also approached and they dragged him out of the vehicle,” said Rhalidzhivha.
The men then drove off with the 45-year-old’s Nissan double bakkie cab, leaving him alone on the road.
Left in the road
Fortunately for the man, a police station was just 500 metres away and he managed to walk there and report the hijacking.
He was not harmed.
On Sunday morning, a 19-year-old man driving on Green Avenue near Kempton Park was also hijacked after stopping his car to avoid bumping people “running on the road” in front of him at 01:00.
“When he stopped for fear of hitting them, they smashed his side window, got into his car and pushed him aside before driving off,” said Ralidzhivha.
The hijackers then drove around with the man for about an hour before returning to the crime scene and dumping him there.
—Agencies