Enforcement alone is not enough to achieve safer South African roads, Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele said in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
“Our integrated public transport networks should be planned to reduce travelling time and increase safety,” he said at the launch of Transport Month at Park Station.
“The BRT system represents one great leap that combines safety and [...]
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The SA Depression Anxiety Group (Saga) warned on Wednesday that policemen under severe stress needed counselling to prevent them from becoming “trigger-happy”.
“What we need to be looking at, [is] training police, empowering the police to recognise their own stresses, empowering them to be psychologically and mentally healthy so that they don’t take anger and frustration [...]
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Donors are urged to take time out of their busy schedules to save a life Currently, SANBS had less than two-days blood stock nationally and the situation could be worse if current Group O blood donors did not come forward to give blood, the service said today.
The situation was exacerbated by a late flu epidemic [...]
On the 23rd of September 2009, spot checks on our vehicle safety practices kicked off. SHE Officer J Halgryn took it upon herself to check the usage of safety belts in the vehicles transporting our colleagues off site. Although there where some not wearing safety belts, it was quickly rectified. This will become a normal [...]
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Two firemen are in a critical condition after there fire engine rolled several times on the N3 North near Merivale in the Natal Midlands at around 06h00 this morning .
Paramedics from Netcare 911 fortunately arrived on scene within minutes of the accident. When they arrived they were prepared for the worst as the fire engine was [...]
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A 19 year old varsity student is in a critical condition after his car rolled several times on the N3 near the Liberty mall in Pietermaritzburg at about 03h30 this morning.
The paramedics from Netcare 911 wwere dispatched to the accident and when they arrived were faced with carnage. The car rolled several times before coming to rest [...]
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A motorcyclist in his 30’s is in a critical condition after he lost control of his bike on the N2 south neat Grout Ville on the Natal North Coast. The biker was travelling on the south bound when he lost control , he fell and slid for several meters on the road .
Netcare 911 paramedics [...]
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Nineteen passengers were seriously injured in a taxi accident on the N2 near Port Shepstone in the Marburg area. The taxi collided with a truck that was turning off the N2 and into the Marburg area .
Netcare 911 paramedics were dispatched to the scene at around 08h30 and when they arrived they found that the taxi went into the [...]
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A 70 year old JHB man today had to be rescued from the Ntunjelaan Pass in the Drakensberg. The Male and a companion was hiking for two days when he started feeling ill and they presumed that he might be having a heart attack .
SAPS search and rescue called for the assistance of the Netcare 911 paramedics. They were [...]
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A woman died in an accident on the N3 just past the Cato Ridge Oasis this afternoon. The bakkie believed to have been travelling along the south bound lost control, cleared the Armco barriers and hit an oncoming 18 wheeler truck. The truck then lost control and overturned down an embankment and landed on top of the [...]
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