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Draft strategy on roads and mobility issues

From "Comment of the Draft Road Safety Strategy (RSS)"

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It's not only road layout, surfaces that causes unsafe conditions that lead to accidents and death or injury.

Driver and pedestrian bahaviour is paramount to the cause of accidents.

Behaviour can only be altered with education and if that fails, prosecution.

Firstly, schools don't spend much time on traffic education, K53 is a great education but totally ignored once a license is issued. There should be a period before the final issue of a license where compliance is gauged through transgression statistics e.g. in Britain.

This points demerit system should be a step in the right direction.

Drivers of public transport, should be required to undergo an advanced driving course and a demerit system that causes them to lose their PDP much quicker.

Foreign driver licenses shouldn't be allowed for heavy duty vehicles in SA without a qualifying test of the driver's ability.

I find that the reckless driving behaviour of mainly the minibus taxi drivers, is soon copied by others when the first gets away with it.

Vehicle drivers are punished for collisions with pedestrians while pedestrians gets away scot free with exactly the same behaviour like drunken or reckless walking. This is wrong. It should be changed.

Basically, the legislation is available but the application thereof is lacking.

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Profile of Rudi Giesler
Posted by:Rudi Giesler
3 months ago
I agree with most of this, expect for pedestrian responsibility. Yes, there are some rare cases where accidents are unavoidable and the blame can be placed on the pedestrian. But most cases the blame should be placed on the driver; just because the speed limit is 60 does not mean you can go 69kph through the area, you have to take the environment into consideration, slow down, and be prepared to emergency stop in any situation where pedestrians could be, e.g. driving past parked cars. Drivers are the ones in control of the dangerous machinery, the responsibility is on them to protect pedestrians as far as possible. A pedestrian hit at 60kph has a 90% chance of dying, at 30kph that drops to 10%, we should have a default 30kph speed limit, not the current 60kph.

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    Profile of Deon GoosenDeon Goosen on 15 May 2026

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