Use shock tactics for drivers

After that horrific Vaal Triangle crash killed 14 children a week ago, after hearing how families had to look at body after body in the morgue in hope (or fear) of recognising something of their own child in the mangled remains, after reading that people at the scene were left sobbing and traumatised, that call centre responders were still crying, that emergency workers are in shock, I thought I had nothing to say, nothing to offer except my deepest sympathies.

- JENNIE RIDYARD

And yet there is something that stays in my head after my recent trip home to South Africa.

People drive like idiots.

People drive like they’re bulletproof; people drive after drinking, people drive while tapping away on their phones, people drive fuelled by rage and hubris.

People drive like physics just doesn’t exist for them.