Safely Home on track to halve road death rate. Western Cape road deaths drop sharply in a great start to Transport Month. The annual report of the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC), compiler of the official road safety statistics, show a sharp drop in the number of road deaths in the Western Cape for the [...]
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A collision involving a truck and a small passenger vehicle occurred today on the N1 highway just past the Durban road off ramp. Both vehicles were traveling in the direction of Cape Town when the truck allegedly changed lanes to the right. The truck then made contact with the passenger vehicle causing it to lose [...]
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A 63-year-old man was in shock after being beaten with a sjambok by an irate motorist in Cape Town’s CBD on Tuesday. Freight company owner, Samed Dalvie, was trying to prevent a motorist from parking in a loading zone he has using when the driver of the luxury vehicle apparently attempted to knock him over. [...]
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Earlier today a regular visitor to the Arrive Alive website sent an email with an interesting notification. The above note reveals that drivers will be fined when they run out of fuel…! We shared this with a few road safety experts and received some interesting responses!! Not all the driving experts agree or find this [...]
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Relatives of Polish tourists involved in a bus crash in which 13 people were killed and 29 injured are on their way to Berlin to try to find out the fate of their loved ones. The tour bus was on its way back to Poland from Spain when it crashed on a highway outside Berlin [...]
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We have recently added new content to the Arrive Alive website on wheel balance and wheel alignment. We have also given a bit more attention to the topic of shock absorbers and safe driving. Potholes and deteriorating roads are contributing factors to the cause of accidents categorized as “environmental factors”. Unfortunately in the present challenging [...]
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We would like to share a question sent to the Arrive Alive website – as well as the response received from the Justice Project, South Africa Question: Hi i am a professional truck driver for more than fourteen years, accident free. I am driving an articulated truck(interlink). I was on my way from Durban to [...]
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Three people have been seriously injured after the light motor vehicle they were travelling in left the M13 highway heading towards Hillcrest and rolled down an embankment into a tree. ER24 paramedics along with VEMA and Gillets Fire Department arrived on the scene and found the light motor vehicle on its side up against a [...]
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A off duty policeman and his wife were injured in the late part of yesterday evening after the bakkie they were travelling in collided into two cows that had strayed into the road near Hammersdale. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene and found the two cows about 10m apart lying up against the verge. The [...]
Twenty six people have been injured including children after two taxi’s, two bakkies and a light motor vehicle collided on Edendale road heading towards Pietermaritzburg this afternoon. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene and found all the vehicles spread out about 100m across the two lanes. Patients were found strewed across the road with multiple [...]
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