/ 19 December 2000

COWBOY DRIVERS PUSH ROAD TOLL UP

KWAZULU-Natal provincial traffic chief John Schnell says weather and traffic volumes have played a major role in South Africa’s holiday death toll, which had reached 373 by Monday night – but warned that most head-on collisions and rear-endings were preceded by a traffic law violation. The Arrive Alive centre in Pretoria said speed, drinking and driving and driver fatigue were the main contributory factors to the accidents.