Pi Shurlok, subsidiary of JSE-listed Control Instruments Group, has designed and developed the software control system for Jaguar Land Rover’s electric Defender game viewer concept vehicle. Pi Shurlok has offices in Cambridge in the UK, Detroit in the USA and Pietermaritzburg in South Africa. The electric Defender game viewer concept vehicle has zero emissions, is [...]
Race and discrimination are sensitive topics for all South Africans. As proud South Africans we strive to unify South Africans across the lines of race, gender, status etc. When we reflect on road safety there is only one focus – trying to save lives – and recognizing that ALL lives are precious. It is alarming [...]
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Control Instruments Automotive (Pty) Ltd have launched the widely-anticipated Gabriel Safari HDP shock absorber for SUV’s and 4×4 vehicles. The HDP (heavy-duty performance) range, as with other Gabriel shock absorbers, is locally designed and manufactured for local off-road conditions and will be available at all major fitment centres and retail outlets during June 2011 “The [...]
One person is dead and another person has sustained minor injuries after a collision on the N3 north bound in the right hand lane just after Market Road in Pietermaritzburg, in the late hours of yesterday evening. ER24 paramedics from Pietermaritzburg arrived on the scene and found two light motor vehicles in the right hand [...]
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The Arrive Alive website received an email with photos from a friend which are well worth sharing on the Road Safety Blog! We have discussed the dangers of animals on the road, and often refer to the fact that some antelope can jump fences. They say a picture says a thousand words – and these [...]
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George Michael, David Hasselhoff, Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson, Amy Winehouse and even our very own legendary singer PJ Powers – all high-profile stars, all thrust into the public eye by their battles with booze. But don’t let the veneer of glamour fool you – living it up like a celebrity might sound like fun, but [...]
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TomTom has just announced the latest exciting campaign named Break Free. This campaign aims to allow people to break free from traffic and even John Cleese has joined the band wagon to Break Free from hateful traffic: John Cleese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxMS2cSsNJo Bob Sinclar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBN9wv_-Yzc Pearl Jozefzoon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yezAC67p-Vw Please check out the TomTom Facebook site as well [...]
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The purpose of this campaign is because, when compared to other rail operational statistics, too many people die or are injured in accidents at level crossings. These however are in the majority of cases due to misuse by motorists and pedestrians whilst the popular misconception is that these fatal accidents are a railway problem. Conferences [...]
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ER24 paramedics in Kwa Zulu Natal have been kept rather busy in the last four hours of this morning responding to various motor vehicle accidents throughout the region. ER24 paramedics from Pietermaritzburg reported that in an hour they had responded to four accidents, where six people had sustained serious injuries. In the first accident on [...]
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Dräger breath-testing equipment was marketed worldwide and modified to suit the needs of individual countries, the Western Cape High Court heard on Tuesday. No country in the entire world had ever rejected the equipment as unreliable, Dräger expert Jurgen Sohege said. Sohege was the first of a number of experts called to the witness stand [...]
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