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Truck seized after vice grips found on brakes
Driver of dodgy truck also tested positive to methamphetamineSouth Australian police have charged a man for acts to endanger life after the truck he was driving was found to have inoperable brakes.
Just before 6.00am yesterday, Monday October 9, police from the heavy vehicle enforcement section allegedly detected a truck at Leawood Gardens travelling toward the city on the South Eastern Freeway at 90km/h.
The police stopped the truck to check its mass and found that the rear brakes had been clamped off with vice grips and the front brakes were inoperable.
The driver, a 37-year-old Campbelltown man was drug tested, and it will be further alleged he tested positive to methamphetamine.
The man was reported for acts to endanger life and the truck defected and seized for mechanical examination and weighing. His drug sample will be sent to Forensic Science SA for further analysis.
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