You won’t get away with anything on our roads this festive season
Just this past weekend 23 people were killed on our roads, 8 were in the Western Cape and 15 in Kwa-Zulu Natal and the Eastern Cape. This is a scary statistic, especially with the festive season fast approaching. But Cape Town safety and security directorate and traffic authority promise to ensure everyone enjoys a safe festive season.
Drunk drivers and unroadworthy vehicles will be the main targets at roadblocks. 1 621 metro police, law enforcement and traffic officers will support the police this festive season with additional resources being deployed on days like Day of Goodwill and New Year’s Eve says Mayco member for Safety and Security, JP Smith.
“Officers will focus on road safety, including drunk driving and will step up patrols in the vicinity of places of entertainment, routes to and from major shopping centres, tourist attractions, business and residential areas to combat property crimes, while also maintaining a presence along main routes to and from our popular beaches,” he says.
Provincial traffic chief Kenny Africa says, “No drivers will ever take chances again and gamble with people’s lives while driving drunk. That is the main cause of road accidents. We will thoroughly check roadworthiness of long-distance taxis as we know that is where most road deaths occur during the festive season as people are going out on holiday”.
Source: IOL