Festive season road deaths
Festive season road deaths show current approach to road safety ineffective - AA
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on Tuesday revealed a 14% increase in the festive season road death toll compared to the previous year.
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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.
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17 people killed in collision near Mookgophong off-ramp
A minibus collided with an SUV near the Mookgophong off-ramp on Tuesday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Four people killed, two critical in Heidelburg collision
Paramedics found the wrecked car after 6am on Friday morning on the N3.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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WC sees big decrease in December road deaths
The majority of those killed over the period were pedestrians.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
