How do you rate your journeys home from work? A little difficult anxious, maybe. Well spare a thought for motorists in South Africa.
Latest figures show more than 250 people are killed on its roads every single week. That makes them the deadliest highways in Africa.
Statistics have been on the upward swing particularly in South African cities with Johannesburg leading with 55,000 accidents recorded in just three months.
Approximately 1.24 million people die yearly on the world’s roads and another 20 to 50 million sustain non-fatal injuries as a result of road traffic crashes.
And now, statistics in South Africa are that at 10,000 people are killed in road accidents annually.
South Africa’s Transport Ministry this week called an urgent meeting with the national taxi cab association, the South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO) and other public transport entities, after 15 people were killed in an accident involving a train and a mini bus taxi in KwaZulu-Natal.
CCTV’s Angelo Coppola reports.
