: When most think about insurance telematics or “Big Brother“ technology in vehicles, they consider the benefits for lower car insurance premiums. We tend to underestimate the impact that this technology might have on changing driver behaviour and the benefits for road safety! It is agreed by all road safety practitioners that effective traffic enforcement [...]
Ryan Dunn, a co-star of the hit Jackass movies, had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when his speeding Porsche careened off a highway, killing him and a passenger, police said on Wednesday. The sports car was travelling at speeds of up to 225km/h when the crash occurred on Monday in West [...]
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Why do we lose 15,000 people on South African roads each year? Reckless driving is the main culprit – and if we do not address driver behaviour these fatalaties will continue to increase! A visitor to the Arrive Alive website shared photos of reckless driving by minibus taxi drivers on the 30th of May 2011 [...]
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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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FINAL INVITATION TO ANNUAL ROAD TRAFFIC LEGISLATION WORKSHOP Please note: If you have not received an Invoice and/or Confirmation letter, you are not Registered. Please contact our office for a registration form. Closing date for registration for Stellenbosch: 20 May 2011 Closing date for registration for Pretoria: 25 May 2011 Durban: Already fully booked. We [...]
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We would like to share a road rage incident in Durban reported earlier today to the Arrive Alive road safety website: Reported Incident: “ALL DRIVERS ALERT At about 07:40am this morning I being alone in my Toyota Tazz going to work was stationary at the robot intersection between Ethelbert Road and Main Road. I was [...]
Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has said that the Zenani Mandela Road Safety Scholarship will help young South Africans tackle the growing epidemic of death and injury on the country’s roads. The Scholarship, in memory of 13-year-old Zenani Mandela Jnr, was officially announced in London earlier today (12 April 2011) together with the Nelson Mandela Foundation [...]
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Tshwane authorities were investigating the possibility on Monday morning that three people killed in an accident on the notorious Voortrekker Road were drag racing, a spokesperson said. “The initial witness reports… suggest that they might have been involved in drag racing,” said Tshwane safety and security spokesperson William Baloyi. The DA called on the city’s [...]
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As of the 1st of April 2011, OUTsurance and 94.5 Kfm, in partnership with the City of Cape Town, will be launching the OUTsurance 94.5Kfm pointsmen initiative. “We’re all extremely excited about bringing this great initiative to the City of Cape Town,” says Peter Cronje, Head of Marketing at OUTsurance. “Since the Pointsmen Initiative was [...]
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We would like to share an email that the Arrive Alive website has received from a disgruntled road user: “I was on my way to Woodmead shopping centre on Saturday 26 March around 11:43. At the intersection of North Way and Old Pretoria Road we experienced some lawlessness and thoroughly offensive behavior. The Toyota in [...]
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