BCM’s blind rise menace

Travelling can be life-threatening. I drive from Kaysers Beach to work in Woodbrook every week day, and back home. Every day, a vehicle will dangerously overtake, crossing a barrier line.

Where there are multiple deaths in an accident on our roads, it is normally due to vehicles overtaking on a blind rise or corner. What is frightening is that nothing is done about it by the authorities. This morning a bakkie overtook me at 8.01am on the blind rise just after the Kidds Beach entrance.

At 8.04am the same vehicle overtook three vehicles on the blind rise just before Gulu. Last week a Jaguar sedan overtook me and another vehicle on a blind rise.

The problem is that when the traffic officers are on patrol, they sit in their motor vehicles in the shade not looking at the traffic. If they had motorcycles this would not be the case.

Where are the days when there were traffic officers stationed at either side of a blind rise – and anyone found crossing the barrier was brought to book?

Why do motorists overtake on blind corners or hills? Because they can.

Now and again their luck runs out and they die – and so do a lot of innocent people.

– Colin Stephenson, via e-mail