{"id":46839,"date":"2026-05-24T10:43:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/road-safety-authorities-have-issued-an-urgent-appeal-to-all-road-users-to-exercise-extreme-caution-when-driving-in-winter\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T10:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:43:26","slug":"road-safety-authorities-have-issued-an-urgent-appeal-to-all-road-users-to-exercise-extreme-caution-when-driving-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/road-safety-authorities-have-issued-an-urgent-appeal-to-all-road-users-to-exercise-extreme-caution-when-driving-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Road safety authorities have issued an urgent appeal to all road users to exercise extreme caution when driving in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the winter chill takes hold across South Africa, bringing with it shorter days, poor visibility, and hazardous driving conditions, road safety authorities have issued an urgent appeal to all road users to exercise extreme caution.With pedestrians currently accounting for nearly half of all road fatalities nationwide, this winter&rsquo;s road safety drive places a critical focus on protecting the most vulnerable road users.<\/p>\n<p>Winter presents a unique and dangerous cocktail of hazards on South African roads. Late sunrises and early sunsets mean that peak commuting hours now take place in twilight or complete darkness.Compounding these are regional weather threats, including dense morning mist and fog in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and the Western Cape, alongside the treacherous threat of invisible black ice on the roads of Free State, the Eastern Cape, and high-altitude mountainous passes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Human behaviour remains the leading factor in road traffic incidents. As visibility drops&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77416&#038;page=road-safety-authorities-have-issued-an-urgent-appeal-to-all-road-users-to-exercise-extreme-caution-when-driving-in-winter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the winter chill takes hold across South Africa, bringing with it shorter days, poor visibility, and hazardous driving conditions, road safety authorities have issued an urgent appeal to all road users to exercise extreme caution.With pedestrians currently accounting for nearly half of all road fatalities nationwide, this winter&rsquo;s road safety drive places a critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46840,"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\/Cold%20winter%20Snowflakes%20%20-%20.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[99,852,66,339,310],"class_list":["post-46839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-eastern-cape","tag-free-state","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-limpopo","tag-western-cape"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Cold%20winter%20Snowflakes%20%20-%20.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46839","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=46839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}