High number of fatalities on SA’s roads needs to be urgently addressed
Reckless speedsters‚ drunken drivers and pedestrians crossing busy roads are just some of the reasons for the carnage on SA’s roads over the festive season‚ with 1,714 fatalities recorded between December 1 2016 and January 9 2017. Minister of Transport Dipuo Peters said on Wednesday that driver and passenger attitudes were to blame for the high number of fatalities on the roads‚ as well as there being two, back-to-back long weekends and a lot of rainy days. "The challenge we are facing is that people just don’t want to change their attitudes on the roads‚" she said. "Stop trying to impress your friends … The culture of the driver alerting the passenger that their seatbelt is not on is not there. Our boys grow up without role models because our men are in the wrong place; either in graves or in prison." Peters also said South Africans need to treat drinking and driving as a "menace‚ as a sickness" in society. The minister said earlier that there were various measures in place to add...
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