11 December 2014
The Western Cape Department of Transport says it wants to prevent road deaths especially over the festive season.
This as MEC of Transport
Donald Grant launched the festive season traffic operational plan for
2014/2014.
MEC Grant said there will be
more round-the-clock enforcement operations over the festive season, and the
average Speed over distance camera enforcement system is now made to cover
larger part of the N1 from Laingsburg to Touwsrivier.
Grant said if one looks at the
year as a whole we had 1216 fatalities last year and a big focus this year is
going to be on pedestrians.
Grant said we asking drivers
to be aware of pedestrians because so far this year our total fatalities of
them 44% are pedestrians.
Grant said we’ll be focusing
on alcohol, excessive speed, speed over distance, driver fatigue and vehicle
fitness.
“The biggest one is seatbelt compliance,
if we all buckle up it takes a second to save a life we are going to
drastically reduce fatalities Grant added.
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