{"id":43049,"date":"2026-01-15T17:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/report-on-the-2025-26-festive-season-road-safety-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:37:06","slug":"report-on-the-2025-26-festive-season-road-safety-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/report-on-the-2025-26-festive-season-road-safety-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on the 2025\/26 Festive Season Road Safety Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Five provinces reported reductions in fatalities with the highest percentage reduction recorded in the Eastern Cape followed by the Free State<\/p>\n

Four provinces namely Gauteng, Western Cape, Mpumalanga, and Northern Cape recorded increases in fatalities<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43050,"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\/615472459_1304807751673542_173349007957147352_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[99,852,164,313,2371,310],"class_list":["post-43049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-eastern-cape","tag-free-state","tag-gauteng","tag-mpumalanga","tag-northern-cape","tag-western-cape"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/615472459_1304807751673542_173349007957147352_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43049","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=43049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}