What do you know about the importance of air bags and the safety they provide? On the Arrive Alive website we have shared much information on Seatbelt Safety and Child Restraints. We would also like to share some information on air bags from an interview with Petro Kruger from the Road Safety Foundation: Is it [...]

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On Friday afternoon I was driving back from Guateng. As we came down Town Hill on the N3 South a vehicle some 100 meters in front of us had lost control, hit an embankment and started to somersaulted through the air and as it hit the road the children was flung out of the vehicle. A little [...]

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The Arrive Alive website received a request for assistance in the interpretation of road traffic laws pertaining to child restraints: “Does Reg213 (Seatbelts) apply to persons under 3 years old? At face value the Arrive Alive confirms this from a legal point of view by saying that children under three must be in a child [...]

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              Earlier this week I was shocked at witnessing careless behaviour from a young parent. I witnessed a lady driving in BMW X5 with her small boy standing on her lap between her and the steering wheel of the car. This was close to home and even though she [...]

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