SA roads record ‘bloodiest weekend’, says traffic authority
Twenty-four people, travelling in a taxi, died in a crash on the R81 in Limpopo on Sunday
17 June 2019 - 12:44
“This was the bloodiest weekend we have experienced and it again points to recklessness and negligence by drivers.”
These were the words of Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) CEO Makhosini Msibi on Monday in response to a spate of accidents over the long weekend in which at least 38 people died in just two of the country’s provinces: Limpopo and Mpumalanga...
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