One road statistic that should shock all South Africans

[BusinessTech]

One road statistic that should shock all South Africans

Traffic statistics released by the Western Cape Government shows that many road related deaths are linked to the use of alcohol.

 

[konfab]

“The most worrying feature of the tidal wave of alcohol abuse on the road is the number of pedestrians who are being killed with extremely high levels of alcohol in their blood,” said Donald Grant, minister of Transport and Public Works.

“From our sample from 2013 to 2015, 366, or 62.6% of the 584 persons whose post-mortem blood tests came back over 0.2 g were pedestrians. This trend seems to be continuing in 2016, with pedestrian traffic fatalities bucking the overall downward trend of deaths among drivers and passengers,” Grant said.

He reminded reckless drivers that the Dräger breathalyser is set to come back into operation on 1 August 2016.

So the people who are getting killed most are drunkards on the side of the road who are not paying attention, not the drivers. Then he states that the breathalyser is coming back to target the group that is not the largest problem.

:erm:

Surely they should rather be focused on making sure that drunk pedestrians don't wander into the road in the first place?

 

[access]

so can they stop that nonsense about speed kills?

 

[Geoff.D]

Ja so the answer is ban all pedestrians ........ :wtf:

 

[ToxicBunny]

Why would this shock us.

We all know it to be the case already, Pedestrians, be they sober or completely motherless, are a MAJOR hazard on the roads these days since, in general, they don't seem to be even vaguely aware of the cars actually using the road.

 

[Neoprod]

Ja so the answer is ban all pedestrians ........ :wtf:

If you're drunk, take back your keys and drive home.