Why the AA believes SA’s road safety campaigns are as good as useless
SA’s road death toll for 2017 is one of the worst in years‚ despite safety campaigns to end the carnage. "Current road safety initiatives are simply not working‚" said the Automobile Association (AA) on Tuesday. Almost 135,000 people have died in road crashes in SA over the past decade — equivalent to the population of Midvaal municipality in Gauteng. Road fatality statistics for 2017‚ made available by the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) on its website last Friday‚ showed that urgent road safety interventions were needed in the country‚ said the AA. According to the statistics‚ 14,050 people died in road accidents in SA in 2017. The death toll was marginally lower than the 14,071 people who died in road accidents in 2016 but still higher than any year between 2008 and 2015. Preliminary Easter road fatality statistics‚ released by Transport Minister Blade Nzimande‚ are 14% higher than same period last year. "Seen against the backdrop of the fatality statistics of the past...
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