MORE than 60 Uber vehicles have been impounded in Cape Town in the last week and as any as 140 in the last two weeks. Merle Lourens of the City of Cape Town's Transport Enforcement Unit (TEU), told Cape Talk that this was because the impounded Uber vehicles were either operating without the necessary permits, or in contravention of these permits. In the last two weeks, 140 Uber vehicles were impounded during "joint ops" with South African Police Services. This also resulted in more than 1,300 fines being handed to Uber vehicles for various offences. On Sunday, a traffic officer narrowly escaped being run over after an Uber driver allegedly tried to dodge a roadblock, and almost ran him over.