[Un]Festive Season – warning sensitive content
[Un]Festive Season – warning sensitive content
The festive season road fatality rate increased for the first time in three years by 5.3% - higher than both decreases from 2021/22 and 2023/24 combined. This is an additional 75 lives lost - or almost two full classrooms of people.
The transport minister Barbara Creecy says 87% of these crashes resulted from human factors.
“Specific reference was made to jaywalking, fatigue, vehicle loss of control, speed, drunk driving and dangerous overtaking or reckless driving. Creecy said despite extensive attempts to change behaviour, drivers and pedestrians continue to act with little concern for life.”
If current methods are not seeing the desired results, it might be time to change the approach.
A visual and highly emotive representation of the consequences of dangerous driving, may have a much more powerful effect.
*Please note: Many of the links to YouTube videos provided by the publicist contained extremely sensitive content.
Links to these videos can be sent through to any readers who request them.
Drunk driving
If you drink and drive, think of what this can do to:
- Yourself
- Your loved ones
- Your children
- Innocent people
Reckless driving
The decision to overtake on a blind a corner or disobey a traffic signal can be catastrophic
Drowsy driving
Fatigued driving is just as dangerous as driving under the influence :
Speed
- Even slowing down by 10km/h can make all the difference
- The speed PSA banned from being aired while children were awake
Not wearing seatbelts
Law enforcement officers issued 23 607 penalties to drivers who failed to wear seatbelts during the 2024/25 festive season
If you remain impervious to the statistics, traffic offences, awareness campaigns or any of the many initiatives to change driver behaviour – perhaps seeing the result of this behaviour will.
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