{"id":42125,"date":"2025-12-19T13:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/festive-season-road-safety-campaign-observations-from-mid-term-review\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:26:33","slug":"festive-season-road-safety-campaign-observations-from-mid-term-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/festive-season-road-safety-campaign-observations-from-mid-term-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive Season Road Safety Campaign – Observations from Mid-Term Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The data at mid-season tell us that enforcement is having an impact on incident rates, but fatal crashes are still occurring at unacceptable levels<\/p>\n

Alcohol misuse, speeding, fatigue, and unsafe pedestrian behaviour remain the dominant risk factors. Heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms in the period under review also had a devastating impact on our campaign.<\/p>\n

These patterns emphasise that law enforcement and infrastructure improvements alone are not enough. They must be paired with sustained behavioural change — the core message of our 365 Days of Road Safety commitment<\/p>\n

Operational Response to Date<\/p>\n

We have stopped 13.7 more vehicles this year than last year and this put a larger group of road users in trouble. <\/p>\n

Government — through the RTMC, SAPS, Traffic Police, and provincial partners — has undertaken: 639 roadblocks in which 714 371 vehicles were stopped and checked<\/p>\n

A total of 168 427 traffic fines were issued while 3 695 unroadworthy vehicles were discontinued,…<\/p>\n

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The data at mid-season tell us that enforcement is having an impact on incident rates, but fatal crashes are still occurring at unacceptable levels Alcohol misuse, speeding, fatigue, and unsafe pedestrian behaviour remain the dominant risk factors. Heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms in the period under review also had a devastating impact on our campaign. These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/597818585_1284866783667639_7294059858936721804_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/597818585_1284866783667639_7294059858936721804_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}