{"id":57295,"date":"2026-10-01T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/three-years-of-arrest-data-show-why-road-safety-needs-more-than-october\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:00:05","slug":"three-years-of-arrest-data-show-why-road-safety-needs-more-than-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/three-years-of-arrest-data-show-why-road-safety-needs-more-than-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Three years of arrest data show why road safety needs more than October"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johannesburg recorded 26,578 DUI arrests between 2023 and 2025, highlighting the need for sustained enforcement and prevention beyond Transport Month<\/p>\n

Between 2023 and 2025, the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) recorded 26,578 arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol, an average of roughly one arrest per hour across the three-year period. The figure covers arrests recorded from January 2023 to December 2025. <\/p>\n

The figure comes from a joint review by AWARE.org and JMPD of drinking-and-driving enforcement data in the city. <\/p>\n

While previous reporting highlighted individual years, reviewing the full three-year period provides a more complete picture of recorded DUI arrests and helps identify patterns that may not be evident in a single year. One pattern that stands out across all three years is the concentration of recorded arrests in the evening. Between 18:00 and 23:59, arrests accounted for 80% of all recorded DUI arrests in 2023, rising to 84.7% in 2024…<\/p>\n

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Johannesburg recorded 26,578 DUI arrests between 2023 and 2025, highlighting the need for sustained enforcement and prevention beyond Transport Month Between 2023 and 2025, the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) recorded 26,578 arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol, an average of roughly one arrest per hour across the three-year period. The figure covers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57296,"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\/Aware_Transport%20Month_Image.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Aware_Transport%20Month_Image.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57295","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=57295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}