Cops have pulled over a Hilux with 33 people squeezed in to the tray
POLICE were left gobsmacked after finding 33 people crammed into the tray of a ute
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NT POLICE have been left gobsmacked after finding 33 people crammed into the tray of a ute.
The youngest person was just one-year-old.
Police said there were also two passengers in the cabin of the Toyota Hilux.
Ironically, one of the people in the back of the tray can be seen wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a road safety message: ‘Always wear your seatbelt’.
Police said they stopped the ute on Port Keats Rd about 3.40pm on Wednesday May 29.
It proved to be an expensive outing for the driver.
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He was issued fines for the following offences: 33 individuals fine on counts of allowing a passenger outside vehicle, one count drive an unregistered and uninsured vehicle and one count drive without number plates.
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The driver was slapped with $3680 in fines.
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The vehicle was also defected by MVR inspectors.
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