Police are searching for the owner and driver of a blue Proton Wira after two men were filmed sitting on the roof of the moving vehicle in Taman Puteri Wangsa, Ulu Tiram.
PETALING JAYA: Police are searching for the owner and driver of a blue Proton Wira after two men were filmed sitting on the roof of the moving vehicle in Taman Puteri Wangsa, Ulu Tiram.
Johor Bahru South district police chief Assistant Commissioner Azrul Hisham Mohd Shaffei said police detected video footage and photographs of the incident circulating on the Facebook page Info Bencana Pahang at about 9am today.
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He said the footage showed the vehicle travelling from Jalan Beladau 32 towards Jalan Bukit Jaya, with two men seated on its roof.
“Efforts to locate the vehicle’s owner, driver and passengers are still ongoing,” he said in a statement.
Azrul said the case was being investigated under Section 47 of the Road Transport Act 1987, which covers carrying people on the exterior of a vehicle or transporting them in a manner that interferes with the driver’s control or endangers other road users.
Members of the public with information about the incident are urged to contact the Johor Bahru South Traffic Police Station at 07-223 7977 to assist with investigations.