Number of fatalities in the province on 62 for the first ten days of December

Imogen Vollenhoven
14 December 2012

 An average of six people a day has died on the provinces roads during the first ten days of December, bringing the number of fatalities during the period to 62. 

This according to Western cape MEC for transport and public works Robin Carlisle.

He said that the number of road deaths in the province rose by 31 percent when compared to the same time last year.

The MEC’s spokesperson Sipesithle Dube adds that an unprecedented high in passenger fatalities indicates lack of seatbelt compliance particularly in respect to backseat passengers.

Dube adds that it is noted that in addition to the continued measures that the department has taken against drunken driving, fatigue and speed management enforcement of buckling up among backseat passengers will be intensified.

He furthermore explains that it also often noted that injuries in crashes are intensified when passengers when passengers and driver themselves are not restrained in the vehicles.

And just the simple decision to buckle up yourself as driver and passengers, putting your seatbelt on is literary the difference between life and death.