Easter road death toll stands at 124

At least 124 people have lost their lives on South Africa’s roads during the Easter Weekend. This is lower than last year‘s figure, but Arrive Alive officials say it is still much too high. By late on Monday afternoon traffic had reached peaks on most of the major highways in the country with huge snarl-ups occurring in the Western Cape, Gauteng and the Free State. Motorists had to travel bumper-to-bumper on the N-Two between Sir Lowry’s Pass and Houw Hoek in the Western Cape as thousands of weekenders returned home. In the Free State two thousand vehicles an hour were counted at Warden on the N-Three. Thousands of buses were counted on the N-One from Moira as ZCC members began returning from their annual Easter weekend.