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Easter road safety campaign 'had positive impact'
The Mercury
|April 22, 2025
AS THE Easter long weekend draws to a close, Transport Minister Barbara Creecy says preliminary data indicate a significant decrease in road crashes and fatalities.
This came to light when Creecy and Deputy Transport Minister Mkhuleko Hlengwa held a media briefing on the Easter road safety campaign on the N1 in Kranskop, Limpopo.
Creecy gave updates on road safety statistics, enforcement operations undertaken, and progress in ensuring safer roads during the long Easter weekend. She opted not to release statistics but to wait until the Easter weekend concluded because "I don't want to jinx the very good record that we have had so far".
She said fatalities and the crashes were showing a significant decrease in all provinces, except Mpumalanga where there was one very serious accident last Thursday and there had been other fatal accidents, too.
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