After long months of pandemic-related stress and anxiety, we all need something to look forward to - and for many South Africans, this means taking a road trip.
However, frightening statistics reveal that a potentially happy holiday may well end in tragedy on our roads.
Recorded deaths on South African
roads numbered 12 503 in 2019.
This places SA right at the top of a list of countries with the most dangerous roads in the world, according to research by Zutobi, an international driver education company.
Its analysis considered a number of criteria, including:
number of road deaths
maximum speed limits
number of people who wear a seatbelt.
However, if one takes into account the number of traffic deaths as a percentage of the population, Thailand records the most deaths per 100 000 people, at 32.7.
South Africa comes in second, but the numbers remain grim at 25.9 deaths per 100 000.
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N4 - Two separate collisions leave 2 dead and three injured....
PAROW - Child critically injured after falling from height....
R31 - Head-on collision leaves one dead, twenty injured....
POLOKWANE Bus and taxi of school kids collide leaving one dead and fourteen injured...
DE DEUR One killed, 2 critical in head-on collision...
ERMELO - Head-on collision leaves four dead, another injured....
BENONI Two killed, one injured in a pedestrian collision...
BOKSBURG One killed, 2 injured in a 2-vehicle collision...
ATLANTIS - Sixteen injured in taxi rollover....
WHITE RIVER - Three-vehicle collision leaves seven injured....
LADYSMITH - Taxi and car collide, leaving sixteen children injured....
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