JOHANNESBURG - Road deaths in South Africa have come to be associated with major holidays.
Easter and festive season travel always result in an increase in fatalities.
South Africa's road carnage is an annual national concern, and recently policymakers and industry leaders shared a roundtable discussion, aimed at finding solutions to this problem.
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The CEO of Aware.org, Mokebe Thulo, who led this conversation says driver behaviour as well the issue of pedestrians.
"In last year's numbers, at least 40% of fatalities around road incidents at the need of the year were attributed to pedestrians."
"In terms of driver behavior, it includes drivers who drive under the influence of alcohol, driver fatigue, drivers that do not follow the rules of the road, drivers speeding and not wearing seat belts, and cars that are not road-worthy road," she said.
Thulo said the road saftey programme has since manage to reduce these issues.
This programme which has already been implemented in Gauteng involves law enforcement including the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) and Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC).
"Gauteng was one of the three provinces that has seen a decline. We see that more law enforcement is used correctly, [the more it yields success]. This includes visibility and existence of roadblocks, drivers being screened," Thulo says.