Stats testify that dangerous driving kills on SA roads
The driving in SA is scary, to say the least.
It is deadly, as stats testify to the numbers of fatalities and the impact on the GDP.
This very unfortunate malady mars our morality even.
How do you explain so many deaths due to speed and negligence involving machines we are supposed to be in control of?
It appears to be the reverse, that the machines seem to be in charge of our physical abilities, conscience, patience and just common decency.
I live in Ferguson Road in New Brighton (which we have proposed to be changed to George Pemba, the name of the world renowned painter, to own our history, not merely changing names of streets).
You could swear our road is a national road the way motorists, taxis, buses and trucks all speed without regard that it is a residential setting where kids, animals and the infirm can wander and be killed.
Drivers could also lose control and plunge into pedestrians or houses along the road. There are no speed limit signs, which we have been asking for, and now we are adding speed humps, even if there is one towards Deal Party.
We also ask that the massive problematic roundabout or circle at the Sheya KulatiFerguson-Mendi interchange should be removed and replaced with traffic lights.
The reason for the proximity of the Brighton Spar to the motorway can only be answered by those in the municipality who sold the land, for these business premises compound the problem at this interchange.
My premise is of course to bring attention to the fact that in SA we drive crazily and the speeding is frightening.
The narrowing of the roads is another matter for there are machines at any given time on our highways, byways and national ways.
The N2 towards Coega is busy and the Uitenhage road needs lanes each way.