{"id":45533,"date":"2026-04-01T18:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/n3-toll-route-traffic-advisory-managing-risks-is-key-to-road-safety\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:03:40","slug":"n3-toll-route-traffic-advisory-managing-risks-is-key-to-road-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/n3-toll-route-traffic-advisory-managing-risks-is-key-to-road-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"N3 Toll Route | Traffic Advisory | Managing risks is key to road safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Easter long weekend approaches and traffic conditions on the N3 Toll Route become busier, N3TC once again encourages motorists to adopt a risk management approach to road safety.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A risk management approach borrows from disciplines such as engineering and occupational safety, where hazards are systematically identified, assessed, prioritised and controlled,&rdquo; explains Thania Dhoogra, chief operating officer of N3TC, the company that manages a 415 km section of the N3 between Cedara in KwaZulu-Natal and Heidelberg in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In road safety, this approach marks a shift from reacting to crashes to reducing, managing and hopefully, preventing the behaviours and conditions that cause them,&rdquo; says Ms Dhoogra. <\/p>\n<p>Manage road safety risks<\/p>\n<p>Road users are advised to plan their journeys carefully and to be prepared for any eventuality, especially under peak conditions when a single incident or slight change in weather can affect travel conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76922&#038;page=n3-toll-route-traffic-advisory-managing-risks-is-key-to-road-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Easter long weekend approaches and traffic conditions on the N3 Toll Route become busier, N3TC once again encourages motorists to adopt a risk management approach to road safety. &ldquo;A risk management approach borrows from disciplines such as engineering and occupational safety, where hazards are systematically identified, assessed, prioritised and controlled,&rdquo; explains Thania Dhoogra, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45534,"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\/Easter%20Sharing%20roads(3).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164,66],"class_list":["post-45533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-gauteng","tag-kwazulu-natal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Easter%20Sharing%20roads(3).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45533","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=45533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}