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Road carnage worsened over the Heroes and Defence Forces holidays, with fatalities jumping from 16 last year to 24 this year, and fatal crashes rising from eight to 13, according to police statistics.<\/p>\n
The total number of accidents recorded during the period climbed from 149 to 196, with 96 people injured.<\/p>\n
Police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the accidents were mostly caused by reckless driving, speeding, mechanical faults and dangerous overtaking.<\/p>\n
Among the worst incidents was the 11…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Road carnage worsened over the Heroes and Defence Forces holidays, with fatalities jumping from 16 last year to 24 this year, and fatal crashes rising from eight to 13, according to police statistics. The total number of accidents recorded during the period climbed from 149 to 196, with 96 people injured. Police spokesperson Commissioner Paul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[8599,258,256,6874,13059,5097,9171,5268,257,662,7414,254,10716,4686,421],"class_list":["post-204748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accidents","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defence","tag-fatal","tag-forces","tag-heroes","tag-holiday","tag-news","tag-police","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surge","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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