Driving expert Rob Handfield – Jones shared his thoughts and insights on on the recent speeding offense by a MEC from the Free State. The MEC for sport, arts, culture and recreation in the Free State, Dan Kgothule was caught doing 235km/h. We would like to share these insights: 1. Overview The problem with driving [...]
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Two street-racing Canadians were caught enjoying a rather brisk run up the challenging Mount Seymour road in British Columbia and lost their supercars as a result. Racing each other in a Ferrari F430 Scuderia and BMW M6, the guilty drivers managed to clock 200km/h – in a 60km/h zone. When they narrowly missed a mother [...]
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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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“Dicing” between two VW Golfs on Commando road in Johannesburg has led to eight people being injured on Monday evening, Gauteng paramedics said. The accident happened at 18:15 when one of the two VW Golf’s allegedly hit a taxi and a Toyota Yaris, said Johannesburg Emergency Services spokesperson Percy Morokane. Two people in each Golf [...]
A regular visitor to the Arrive Alive website emailed a traffic fine for a Polo exceeding the speed limit!! The photo clearly proves that this Polo is being towed with front wheels in the air!!
A Free State traffic officer was killed near Odendaalsrus when she tried to stop a speeding vehicle near Monyakeng, police said on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Captain Stephen Thakeng said the woman was monitoring motorists for speeding at Allanridge road next to Monyakeng, where the speed limit was 80km/h. “There was a vehicle travelling from Bothaville [...]
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A municipal worker was seriously injured when she was struck by a hijacked car fleeing police on Kenville Road, Sea Cow Lake, this afternoon. It is thought that the woman had been working at the roadside cutting the grass when the hijacked vehicle rounded a bend at high speed with eThekwini Metro and South African [...]
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Many traffic officers on duty in Rolling Enforcement plan Earlier in December we received an email from a visitor to the Arrive Alive website who raised concern at not seeing enough traffic officers on the road. His complaint was the following: “I dont know if my comments will make an impact. I drove up to [...]
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The Road Traffic Inspectorate encountered problems whereby motorists approaching the fixed camera sites reduced the speeds in order to comply and there after disobeyed all other traffic rules. In an endeavour to ensure road safety on public roads, the Inspectorate embarked on the speed over distance project. The project is based entirely on the “Time [...]
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The Arrive Alive website received this request for assistance: “Dear Expert, Is it legal to display command sign combination that include speed camera enforcements? I have investigated the temporary signs and do not see speed camera’s as part of the temporary regulatory signs. I have noticed this on the N1 road in the Western Cape.” We [...]
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