Today we report on the progress and preliminary results of our 2025/26 Festive Season Road Safety Campaign and the overall road safety outcomes for the 2025 year as a whole.
Preliminary data indicates a five percent reduction in both fatalities and crashes for this year’s festive season, compared to the same period in the previous year. This year, a total of 1 427 fatalities were recorded from 1 172 crashes this year
The data shows that the 2025/26 festive season recorded the lowest number of crashes in five years, and the same number of fatalities as in 2023/24 festive season
Five provinces reported reductions in fatalities with the highest percentage reduction recorded in the Eastern Cape followed by the Free State
Four provinces namely Gauteng, Western Cape, Mpumalanga, and Northern Cape recorded increases in fatalities
There was a noticeable increase in the number of crashes and fatalities from 15 to 28 of December. These two weeks contributed more than forty percent…
