Road Safety

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• 20 car pile-up causes chaos in Johannesburg

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 126
  The M1 North was closed to traffic at the Empire road onramp on Sunday afternoon following a 20 car pile-up, said Johannesburg metro police. “Twenty cars have been involved in the accident. The road is completely closed… completely blocked off so we urge motorists to use the Glenhove and Joe Slovo onramps,” ...
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• Traffic police organizes road safety campaign in Guwahati

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Guwahati, Nov. 15 (ANI): On the occasion of the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, Traffic police in Guwahati organised an awareness campaign on Sunday to sensitise people about road safety.“Over the last five years, the number of accidents has doubled. The number of accidents which were around 300 ...
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• Be Seen In Traffic

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  Now that winter is definitely probably almost nearly here (currently sunny & just below 20 °C here is Croatia), the chances are that you’re going to end up riding at night. Unless you are actually a Bike Ninja, and on some sort of assassination mission, it’s a good idea to make yourself as visible as [...]
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• 4 year old boy critical after drowning accident

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 126
  A 4 year old boy is fighting for his life in the Charlotte Maxeke hospital after he was found in a prostrate position at the bottom of the pool. Details of how or when the boy landed in the pool is still speculative. His mother went looking for him and was horrified to see her child lying motionless at the bottom of ...
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• 7 car pile up Germiston

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 126
  Six taxis and a car collided on Black Reef road at around 16h34 leaving 13 people injured –  3 seriously so. Although the exact details of the accident are still speculative, the impact was such that 3 taxis and the car are damaged beyond repair. Netcare 911 paramedics arrived on scene to find total carnage, and ...
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• VIDEO Of Bugatti Veyron Crash Into Marsh. Oh, And I Called It -- No Low-Flying Pelican

  
  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome — Authority: 746
  Apparently some kids happened to videotape the $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron crash from the other day . And, surprise surprise, there was no "low-flying pelican". Nope, just a man playing with himself in one of the worlds most expensive production vehicles . Way to go, champ.Hit the jump for a video of the car ...
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• eNaTIS sets new record

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 126
  In true South African fashion the National Traffic Information System (eNaTIS) continues performing like Formula 1 supremo Jody Scheckter in his heyday: during October 2009 the system processed an astonishing 16 708 459 transactions. October 2009’s performance represents the highest number of transactions for a ...
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• Holidaymaker from Pakistan drowns in Springs

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 126
  A 19 year old male from Pakistan died after falling into a pool in the Springs area at 21h00. Exact details of what led to him falling into the pool is still unknown and for police investigation. The holidaymaker was out from Pakistan to attend a family wedding. It is believed that he was missing for about four ...
  3 days ago

• Youre Doing It Wrong: Super-Rich Idiot Moron Drives $2 Million Bugatti Veyron Into Marsh

  
  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome — Authority: 746
  An unnamed member of the Illuminati recently drove his Bugatti Veyron into a Texas marsh because hes stupid and cant drive . The man, who refused to give his name, was looking at real estate in Galveston.About 3 p.m. a low-flying pelican distracted him as he traveled north on Interstate 45 just south of the ...
  3 days ago

• Policewoman hijacked, killed in Eastern Cape

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 126
  A 33-year-old Eastern Cape policewoman was murdered after four men hijacked her car near Grahamstown, Port Alfred police said on Thursday. Captain Mali Govender said Chunyiswa Zamani – stationed at King William’s Town – had been driving in the direction of Peddie just after noon on Wednesday when she was ...
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• PUBLIC TO KEEP A PORTABLE FIRE EXTINGUISHER IN THEIR CARS.

  
  KERETA INFO | MAJALAH KERETA MALAYSIA Car Automotive News Reviews Tips & Details — Authority: 138
  Deputy Transport Minister urged the public to keep fire extinguisher in their car.Read the full news from Bernama below.KEEP FIRE EXTINGUISHER IN CAR.KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 - Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew Wednesday urged the public to keep a portable fire extinguisher in their cars as part of ...
  4 days ago

• Student Cop dies in high-speed crash

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 126
  A Pretoria student constable was killed and two police officers, including a trainee, were injured when they crashed into a bakkie at high speed while responding to a burglary. The trio, from the Sinoville police station, had just come on duty when their station received a call for help around 5am on Wednesday. As ...
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• Tribe Toyota learn to be street smart

  
  Autoworld Blog — Authority: 125
  We all know about the recent story of a girl, who was robbed of her phone, handbag and some cash at a petrol station, and then chased down the thief before crashing her Perodua Myvi into him at a dead end. While we cannot condone the taking of a person’s life, regardless of circumstance, the ironic injustice is ...
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• Is It Time To Demand Segregation?

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 130
  No, I’m not talking about the kind of segregation that creates second-class citizens , and makes people sit at the back of the bus - that’s not a Good Thing at all.No, what I mean is having decent, direct routes for bikes that keep them out of the way of eejits people driving motorised vehicles. [...]
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• REPORT: More than 25% of US bridges are "structurally deficient or functionally obsolete"

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 788
  Filed under: Safety Heres some bad news for all of us: Over 150,000 bridges in the U.S. have been judged to be "structurally deficient or functionally obsolete." And get this, there are less than 598,000 bridges in America. That means 25.7% arent in very good shape. It turns out that the state with the most ...
  5 days ago

• Banks reluctant to approve new car loans

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 126
  Johannesburg – The number of approved car loans had barely increased in 12 months, even though banks said earlier they would relax credit lending criteria. This was according to Wesbank, one of the country’s biggest vehicle credit providers, which on Wednesday published the fourth-quarter confidence index on car ...
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• Zambia accident kills 18

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 126
  Lusaka – A bus and an oil tanker collided head-on in northern Zambia on Tuesday, leaving at least 18 people dead and 47 injured, police said. “Eighteen people died on the spot while 47 others sustained serious injuries when a bus they were traveling in collided with a fuel tank at Matumbo in Chinsali district in ...
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• Young men feel speeding is ok – if they are driving

  
  Aussie Exotics — Authority: 115
  Discussion in the hoons and speed camera forums . YOUNG men commonly feel speeding is okay, but only if they are the one driving, a road safety expert says. Soames Job, director of the New South Wales Centre for Road Safety, told a Sydney audience the finding was revealed in new research examining the attitudes of ...
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• Call to fence off deadly railway tracks

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 126
  Railway operators should be forced to properly fence off railway lines near residential areas, said Mayoral Committee Member for Social Development Grant Pascoe. Pascoe has written to Minister of Transport, Sibusiso Ndebele, asking him to produce legislation requiring railway operators to provide fencing on high-risk ...
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• Let this bollard be a lesson to you

  
  Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest — Authority: 514
  I am sorry to say that this local bollard wilfully ignored the advice of top road safety professionals and foolishly stood in the middle of an off-road cycle lane, where it was hit by a driver who simply didnt know it was there. So, please, I beg of you - dont dress in black like this bollard. If you must use an ...
  6 days ago

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