{"id":45646,"date":"2026-04-06T06:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/n3-toll-route-traffic-advisory-sunday-5-april-2026-careful-planning-and-defensive-driving-are-critical-as-road-users-start-their-return-journeys\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:26:31","slug":"n3-toll-route-traffic-advisory-sunday-5-april-2026-careful-planning-and-defensive-driving-are-critical-as-road-users-start-their-return-journeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/n3-toll-route-traffic-advisory-sunday-5-april-2026-careful-planning-and-defensive-driving-are-critical-as-road-users-start-their-return-journeys\/","title":{"rendered":"N3 Toll Route | Traffic Advisory | Sunday, 5 April 2026 \u2014 Careful planning and defensive driving are critical as road users start their return journeys."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Road users are advised to plan for high traffic volumes and sudden in changes in the weather on the N3 Toll Route over the coming days as they set out on their return journeys at the end of the holiday period. <\/p>\n<p>Sudden changes in weather, as well as heavy traffic volumes and crash incidents, may disrupt traffic flow along various parts of the route during the upcoming peak travel period. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We, therefore, encourage motorists to be prepared for changing travel conditions and to allow sufficient travel time for possible delays or emergencies. Demands on drivers increase as traffic volumes rise, and become more pressing after long hours on the road, when fatigue sets in, or darkness falls,&rdquo; explains Thania Dhoogra, chief operating officer of N3TC, the company managing the N3 Toll Route between Cedara in KwaZulu-Natal and Heidelberg in Gauteng. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If possible, please avoid last-minute or night-time travel. We recommend road users plan their return trips to allow sufficient&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76955&#038;page=n3-toll-route-traffic-advisory-sunday-5-april-2026-careful-planning-and-defensive-driving-are-critical-as-road-users-start-their-return-journeys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road users are advised to plan for high traffic volumes and sudden in changes in the weather on the N3 Toll Route over the coming days as they set out on their return journeys at the end of the holiday period. Sudden changes in weather, as well as heavy traffic volumes and crash incidents, may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45647,"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\/Effective%20traffic%20law%20enforcement%20is%20one%20of%20the%20most%20important%20contributors%20to%20road%20safety_(5).JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164,66],"class_list":["post-45646","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\/Effective%20traffic%20law%20enforcement%20is%20one%20of%20the%20most%20important%20contributors%20to%20road%20safety_(5).JPG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45646","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=45646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}