Cape town car accidents
Cape Town auto repairs drop by 45% - 60%
South African Motor Body Repairers' Association's Charles Canning says with far less people driving to work, less accidents occur.
It’s believed the group’s vehicle crashed into a wall on the corner of Mill and Buitenkant Streets on Saturday.
Officials also arrested 17 drunk drivers during 26 roadblocks held across the province.
The City of Cape Town says roadblocks are intended for community safety by getting drunk drivers off the roads.
Kenny Africa says officials arrested 27 people for drunk driving during roadblocks across the Cape.
A further three motorists have been arrested for drunk driving.
Four pedestrians were also knocked over on the province’s roads.
Two children were killed in a collision on the N2 Highway near Aberdeen.
Three people were killed and four very seriously injured in an accident in the Central Karoo.
Several motorists were killed over the long weekend in different road accidents.
Five people have been killed in an accident on a stretch of the N1 Highway dubbed ‘the road of death’
The 37-year-old motorist lost control of his vehicle and crashed.
11 have died on the province's roads while seven have died in Citrusdal.
Road accidents in the Western Cape at the weekend have claimed nine lives.
Authorities plead with the public to drive responsibly and avoid injury.
Western Cape Traffic Chief Kenny Africa says paramedics are still on the scene.