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Fiver people were killed in a collision on the R60 between Worcester and Robertson on 30 December 2021. Picture: @mec_mitchell/Twitter

Festive season road deaths

Festive season road deaths show current approach to road safety ineffective - AA

By Kaylynn Palm

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on Tuesday revealed a 14% increase in the festive season road death toll compared to the previous year.

  • A bus accident claimed the lives of 3 people with at least 70 people injured near Polokwane on 3 January 2022. Picture: @ER24EMS/Twitter

    1,685 people killed on SA's roads during festive season

    The deaths were recorded over a period of 42 days - from December to January - and the death toll is 14% higher than the 2020 holiday period.

    202 days ago
  • Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter

    17 people killed in collision near Mookgophong off-ramp

    A minibus collided with an SUV near the Mookgophong off-ramp on Tuesday.

    208 days ago
  • Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter

    9 people die in head-on taxi collision in Eastern Cape

    Officials said that the fully loaded taxi traveling towards Gqeberha collided with another taxi in the opposite lane.

    210 days ago
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    Baby amongst 3 people killed in collision with truck near Kroondal toll plaza

    A bakkie collided with a truck near Kroondal Plaza in the early hours of Monday morning.

    210 days ago
  • FILE: Emalahleni Mayor Linah Malatji (centre). Picture: @eMalahleniLocalMunicipality/Facebook

    Emalahleni Mayor Linah Malatjie killed in car crash

    Details around the crash remain unclear but Eyewitness News understands that a delegation from the provincial government is on its way to the Malatjie household to gather more information.

    217 days ago
  • ER24 paramedics attend to a patient. Picture: Supplied

    Four people killed, two critical in Heidelburg collision

    Paramedics found the wrecked car after 6am on Friday morning on the N3.

    220 days ago
  • Fiver people were killed in a collision on the R60 between Worcester and Robertson on 30 December 2021. Picture: @mec_mitchell/Twitter

    5 people killed in collision on R60 between Worcester and Robertson

    It's understood that the car they were travelling in collided with a truck between Worcester and Robertson on Thursday afternoon.

    220 days ago
  • FILE: Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula. Picture: Fikile Mbalula/Twitter

    Mbalula: Fatal crashes in SA increased by 142% since start of festive season

    Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on Wednesday said 822 people have lost their lives so far.

    229 days ago
  • Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula left at the launch of the festive season road safety campaign in Bloenfontein on 13 December 2021. Picture: @MbalulaFikile/Twitter

    AA urges govt to repurpose finances towards curbing road deaths

    Eight hundred and twenty-two people have died on the country's roads since the beginning of the festive season, just 3.1% lower than the previous year.

    229 days ago
  • SA records a decline in road fatalities over festive season

    On 22 January 2021, Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula released the statistics for road fatalities over the festive season, reporting there had been a decline in deaths compared to previous years.

    563 days ago
  • Gauteng Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo at one of the COVID-19 joint inter-provincial permanent static roadblocks across the province. Picture: @jacobmamablolo/Twitter

    Mamabolo commends the public for no major incidents on Gauteng roads

    As the holidays end and people return to work, road blocks have been set up on the province’s major routes, with no major incidents reported yet.

    581 days ago
  • Law enforcement officers operate a roadblock on the N3 Marianhill Toll Plaza. Picture: @TrafficRTMC/Twitter

    RTMC notes more road deaths involving private cars this festive season

    The RTMC’s Makhosini Msibi said that this festive season had so far seen more deaths of people in private vehicles than any other mode of transport.

    594 days ago
  • Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula (L) on 23 January 2020 briefed the media on the 2019/2020 festive season road safety report in Pretoria. Picture: @GovernmentZA/Twitter

    Mbalula: We’ve met our target to decrease road fatalities by 10%

    The minister and officials from the Road Traffic Management Corporation addressed the media on the festive season road safety.

    928 days ago
  • Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula gives the 2019/2020 festive season road safety report in Pretoria on 23 January 2020. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/EWN

    Fatal crashes reduced by 3% over 2019 festive season - Mbalula

    Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula released the 2019/20 festive season road safety report on Thursday.

    928 days ago
  • FILE: A Western Cape traffic official conducts vehicle checks and random breath testing operations. Picture: @WCGovSafelyHome/Twitter

    WC sees big decrease in December road deaths

    The majority of those killed over the period were pedestrians.

    942 days ago
  • Mop-up operations got under way on Monday, 2 December 2019, following an accident between five trucks on Van Reenen’s Pass on the N3. Picture: N3 Toll Concession.

    Justice Project SA: Road safety messages not getting through to drivers

    Mid-term statistics show that 589 people have been killed and over 1,300 arrested for drunk driving since the start of the festive season.

    958 days ago
  • Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula. Picture: @MbalulaFikile/Twitter

    'Our job's not done', says Mbalula as dept seeks to reduce road deaths

    Almost 600 people have lost their lives already since the start of the festive season - last year that number stood at 839 on 23 December.

    959 days ago
  • The scene of an accident near Potchefstroom on 21 December 2019. Picture: @ER24EMS/Twitter

    589 people killed on SA's roads this festive season so far - Mbalula

    Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said that authorities had recorded 489 fatal crashes since the start of the holiday period and this resulted in 589 fatalities.

    959 days ago
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