A British road safety video which cost just £47,000 to make has been heralded as one of the world’s finest adverts by an international awards panel in New York. The emotional ad, which was made for Sussex Road Safety Partnership, shows a mother and daughter forming a human seatbelt around a man as he mimes [...]
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The Arrive Alive website received the above photo from a regular visitor – and this is simply too good not to share! The photo was taken in Amanzimtoti and captures a blue monkey who got hold of a vuvuzela – and tried to give it a go himself!! We would like to advise all humans, [...]
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A driver and two passengers have sustained serious injuries after the truck they were in left the road and went down a hundred meter embankment before coming to rest on its side this morning. The incident took place on the R13 coming down in the vicinity of Polly Shorts. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene [...]
One person is dead, another is in a critical condition, while dozen other commuters have sustained minor to serious injuries after the taxi they were travelling in over turned on the N2 North Bound just past the Umkomass River this afternoon. ER24 paramedics and other emergency personnel arrived on the scene to find the taxi [...]
A leading medical journal says the world could boost its blood supply from young donors by tapping into social networks like Facebook and Google. In an editorial on Friday, the Lancet calls for doctors to encourage young people to donate blood, including recruitment drives on Facebook or running advertisements for national blood donation agencies on [...]
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On Friday four multinational vehicle tyre manufacturers obtained a court order against the alleged dumping in South Africa of cheap tyres from China. In the Pretoria High Court Judge Willie Hartzenberg set aside the International Trade Administration Committee (Itac) recommendation to suspend an anti-dumping investigation. This recommendation was published in the Government Gazette in 2007. [...]
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A truck driver has been killed after the articulated truck left the road on the M13 between the N3 and Shongweni on ramp heading towards Hillcrest this morning and crashed into trees along the embankment. Emergency personnel arrived on the scene to find the articulated truck lying down an embankment with the container that it [...]
A man was killed when he was struck by a passenger train near Umkomaas, south of Durban, this morning. What transpired is speculative and will be the subject of a South African Police Force investigation. It is alleged that the man had been standing on the tracks watching fishermen on the shore when he was [...]
A fifty one-year-old man was taken to hospital after the car he was driving was hit by a train at a level crossing, along the R102, in Faure, near Eerste River. When emergency services arrived on the scene they found the car lying on its roof between the train tracks and the road, with the [...]
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Two lanes were closed on William Nicol drive in Johannesburg on Thursday because there was ice on the road, metro police said. “The ice on the road is making it slippery and dangerous to drivers,” metro police spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said. The two lanes were closed just before Sandton Drive. Traffic was severely affected. [SAPA] [...]
