FAST CARS COMBINED with fast fingers are allowing illegal street racers to thrive.
That’s the concern of senior traffic cop Sergeant Seibert Johnson, who yesterday condemned the increasing prevalence of street racing and the use of social media messaging services to warn that police officers were on the way.
In a bid to curb that activity, Johnson, of the Traffic Division, and general manager of Co-operators General Insurance, Anton Lovell, have called for insurance companies to get involved and cancel the policies of street racers.
Johnson told the DAILY NATION yesterday that the dangerous practice was growing as the speedsters used their cellphones to message other racers to alert them of any police presence where they planned to race. (AD)
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