PREMIUM! Minister of Teransport Fikile Mbalula and Road Traffic Management Chief Executive Officer Advocate Masini Msibi before briefing media on 2020 Festive Season Road Statistics at N12 , Eldorado Park Pedestrian Bridge, 22 January 2021. Picture; Nigel Sibanda
The decline in the number of festive season road fatalities has been attributed to the reduced traffic volumes due to Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, with the Automobile Association (AA) lamenting that road safety has unfortunately not improved. Releasing the December road crashes statistics on Friday, Transport minister Fikile Mbalula said overall, there were a total of 1 448 fatalities from 1 210 fatal crashes, which he said represented a 7% decline in fatalities and 10.3% decline in fatal crashes, year-on-year. Traffic volumes had declined from 1 556 704 vehicles on the road the previous year, to 1 419 782, with a.
Despite reduction in fatalities SA is still blighted by road deaths, says AA 22 January 2021 - 14:55 By Motoring Reporter and AASA The AA says it has become too routine for South Africans to accept road traffic fatalities will continue, or decrease nominally, annually without more being done to reverse the situation. Image: Supplied
The Automobile Association (AA) says a reduction in fatalities on the country’s roads during the recent festive season is welcome news but must be seen in the context of decreased traffic volumes over the same period the previous year.
Speaking in Gauteng on Friday, transport minister Fikile Mbalula announced the festive season road statistics, noting t from December 1 2020 to January 11 2021, 1,448 people died on the roads in 1,210 fatal crashes.