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Little is being done to stem the number of fatal traffic accidents in South Africa. Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has been in office for months now and has done seemingly little to make road users safer in South Africa.
According to a new report by online driving school Zutobi, titled The World’s Safest Roads, South Africa’s blacktops are by some considerable margin the most dangerous in globally, reports TimesLive.
24.5 fatal traffic accidents in South Africa occur per 100 000 people. Meanwhile the global average is just 6.3 per 100 000.
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FATAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Therefore, every time you step out of your house and onto the streets, you are in four-times more danger than the global average. Specifically, the report highlights a low percentage of seatbelt adherence. And a high number of drunk drivers on Mzansi’s roads as reasons for this. However, a big contributing factor it neglected to mention is large bus and minibus taxi accidents that lead to multiple fatalities.
FATAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA ARE ONLY GETTING WORSE, ACCORDING TO THE STATISTICS
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