We cannot expect politicians to take responsibility for carnage on the roads or gender-based violence
‘Toyota Quantum and HiAce vehicles are on road on a semi-full-time basis and travel more kilometres vs other models and would, thus, be exposed to more on-road conflict situations,’ the report reads
While drunk driving is no doubt a major factor in traffic accidents – SADD indicates that drunk driving is responsible for 65% of all accidents.
The Road Traffic Management Corporation says at least 103 people have been killed in road accidents through the country over the long weekend.
SA has had 855 deaths on its roads since the start of Decembe, while Gauteng has had the largest number of motor crashes, followed by KwaZulu-Natal.
A new initiative is aimed at reducing car accidents, which kill more than 10 000 people in south-east Europe each year.
A road in the North West that is just 50km long
has so far cost almost R5-million per kilometre to build and after four years is still unfinished.
A proposed bill could see traffic offenders doing community service in state mortuaries or trauma units, says a report.
Another year of road carnage has been capped off with an estimated festive season death toll of 1 465.
Despite a handful of initiatives to improve road safety during the festive season, the road death toll continues to rise.
Tthe rise in deaths on South African roads has outstripped the increase in the vehicle population over the past 50 years
Gauteng education minister Barbara Creecy says at least 203 of 485 buses in the province’s scholar transport programme are unroadworthy.
A 27-vehicle pile-up on a British motorway sparked explosions and an inferno, leaving several people dead and 43 injured.
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/ 21 September 2011
Crashes were almost always caused by drivers violating road laws, but enforcement authorities still insist on focusing on speed prosecution.
The driver of a 32-seater bus involved a crash in which 14 school pupils were killed in Knysna had allegedly tried to transport 58 schoolchildren.
More than 200 people were killed in road accidents during the Easter weekend, according to the Road Traffic Management Corporation.
New research shows that the brain actively works to repair itself after traumatic injury, but subsequent impact can compound the damage.
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/ 19 September 2010
The number of Malawians killed in a collision between a minibus taxi and a truck in Laingsburg rose to 23 on Sunday with a death of another man.
Two British tourists were killed and at least 18 injured when their overland truck crashed on Thursday on the eve of the Soccer World Cup.
The owner of a bus that killed 23 people in South Africa was charged with murder on Friday, a police spokesperson said.
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/ 2 February 2010
Law enforcement agencies must step up their operations following a number of traffic accidents countrywide, says Transport Minister S’bu Ndebele.
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/ 26 January 2010
There were 1 582 road-accident deaths over the festive season, Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele said on Tuesday.
A third Roadlink bus has been impounded in less than a week after being found with defective brakes in George in the Southern Cape.
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/ 25 February 2009
A minibus taxi driver who allegedly ran down a girl on a scooter in Pretoria should be charged with murder, the Freedom Front Plus said on Wednesday.
KwaZulu-Natal transport minister Bheki Cele on Thursday called national bus operator SA Roadlink a ”killing machine” and ”a coffin on wheels”.
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/ 22 December 2008
A serious car accident can now bankrupt you for life, the Johannesburg Attorneys Association said on Monday.
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/ 16 December 2008
Motorists should avoid travelling on the M1 North following an accident involving a paint truck, metro police said on Tuesday.
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/ 12 November 2008
Twenty-three people were killed and eight injured when two trucks collided on the R40 Bushbuckridge road on Wednesday, Mpumalanga police said.
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/ 30 October 2008
Road-safety messages tend to be disseminated only during holiday periods such as Easter and Christmas.
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/ 15 September 2008
Twelve tourists, including seven foreigners, were killed when their coach hit a truck along the west coast of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on Monday.
The SACP has voiced its concerns over a court decision to grant a temporary order against the RAF’s policy of paying claimants directly.