Transport Minister Barbara Creecy warns of a concerning increase in road fatalities during the 2024 festive season, with Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, and Limpopo accounting for the majority of deaths.
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has painted a grim picture of the 2024 festive season, revealing that Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Limpopo account for 70% of road fatalities in South Africa thus far. Creecy and her deputy Mkhuleko Hlengwa provided an update on the mid-festive season preliminary road safety report on Thursday at Touws River in the Western Cape. A total of 439 fatal crashes have been recorded, which is a 3.
1 % increase when compared to 426 fatal crashes recorded in the same period last year. These crashes have resulted in 512 people dying on the roads so far, compared to 499 last year. This is a statistically significant 2.6% increase in fatalities, and it threatens our expectations to have fewer fatalities over this season. The majority of those who died were pedestrians (45.6%), followed by passengers (26.8%), drivers (26.7%) and cyclists (0.74%). Creecy said Gauteng, KwaZulu Natal, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Limpopo accounted for 70% of all fatalities in this period. Gauteng has the highest number of fatalities at 19%, KwaZulu-Natal at 15%, the Western Cape at 14% and the Eastern Cape and Limpopo both at 11%. The Free State and Mpumalanga have seen a contribution of 10% and 9% respectively, while the North West contributed 7% and the Northern Cape at the lowest with a contribution of 4% to the total number of fatalities
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