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WATCH: Dramatic footage shows smash-and-grab in Johannesburg traffic

Footage loaded to YouTube by user Craig Jennings shows dramatic footage of a Johannesburg motorist falling victim to a smash-and-grab robbery along Witkoppen Road near the Cambridge Road intersection in Paulshof. Watch.

A man begs along side the car before he walks back to the white Land Rover Discovery and dives at the window.

The footage does not show if anything was taken from inside the car before the man runs away.

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