Western Cape Mobility Minister Ricardo Mackenzie expressed concern about the province’s bleak start to the holiday season. Since the beginning of December, there have been 55 fatalities on the roads.
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‘Our Provincial Traffic Law Enforcement is out in full force with close to 600 Provincial Traffic Officers deployed across the Western Cape working collaboratively with other enforcement agencies,’ he said. ‘Each district has a comprehensive programme of daily operations. These include patrolling routes, enforcing speed limits, checking vehicle and driver safety, detecting drunk or tired drivers, passenger overloading, and seat belt usage.’
‘On top of these daily operations, our teams are conducting inter-provincial corridor operations with our neighbouring provinces; pedestrian awareness interventions; driver awareness interventions focusing on alcohol for public transport operators; and integrated fatigue operations on key routes.’
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‘All these road safety efforts are aimed at helping our residents and visitors arrive safely home. We are doing our part. We are calling on all road users to join us and do their part. The required precautions are not complicated, but they do require discipline.’
Between 4 and 10 December, Provincial Traffic Inspectors conducted 298 integrated roadblocks, vehicle check points and speed control operations and stopped and checked 34 709 vehicles across the Western Cape.
A total of 10 041 fines were issued for various traffic violations ranging from driver to vehicle fitness.
Nineteen vehicles were impounded and 111 were discontinued for being found to be unroadworthy.
A total of 240 speeding offences were recorded including one road user who was caught driving 166km/h in a 120km/h zone. The highest speed recorded in a 60km/h zone was 94km/h.
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