{"id":99977,"date":"2019-08-10T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=99977"},"modified":"2019-08-08T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T09:40:06","slug":"middelburg-drivers-worst-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/08\/10\/middelburg-drivers-worst-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Middelburg drivers the worst by far"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cToo many people die on our roads,\u201d Mayor Tolo told councillors, in a call for the ongoing road slaughters to stop.<\/p>\n

Like\u00a0Middelburg Observer<\/i>\u00a0journalists, Mayor Tolo has a reason to lie awake at night due to road accidents, following the release of the Nkangala District Municipality\u2019s major incident report for the first quarter of 2019 at the end of May.<\/p>\n

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The accident on the R555 that took place on 8 Aug.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Though the district did not declare any \u201cdisasters\u201d in line with Section 55 of the Disaster Management Act, there were a number of major incidents the district\u2019s disaster management teams attended to, and in regards to road accidents, Middelburg drivers beat eMalahleni motorists with a staggering 170 accidents, a full 48 accidents more than eMalahleni\u2019s average for the entire quarter.<\/p>\n

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A taxi rolled on the N4, 4th August.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The district\u2019s disaster management team responded to 292 accidents in Middelburg, compared to eMalahleni\u2019s 122 over the same period.<\/p>\n

In Middelburg 15 pedestrian accidents were recorded to eMalahleni\u2019s four, and Middelburg\u2019s firefighters had to respond to 10 structural fires and 10 veld fires, compared to eMalahleni\u2019s three and zero respectively.<\/p>\n

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The accident on the N11 (Hendrina road) in which 9 people burned to death.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2022 Thembisile Hani Municipality – 29 road accidents, one pedestrian accident, three veld fires and 18 structural fires.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dr JS Moroka Municipality – 13 vehicle accidents, three pedestrian accidents, six veld fires and 21 structural fires.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Victor Khanye Municipality – 36 vehicle accidents, no pedestrian accidents, five veld fires and 17 structural fires.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Emakhazeni Municipality – 46 road accidents, no pedestrian accidents, no veld fires and four structural fires.<\/p>\n

The number of fatalities in each of the listed accidents were not supplied in the report.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, during a double sitting of council, Mayor Bagudi Tolo tackled the carnage on Middelburg\u2019s roads head-on, saying drivers must take responsibility for their own lives, those of their families, and motorists around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":99181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[12454,10010,19852,19853,12898,19851,15497,10333],"class_list":["post-99977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accidents-in-middelburg","tag-local-news","tag-mayor-tolo-tackles-road-carnage","tag-middelburg-drivers-worst-by-far","tag-middelburg-news","tag-road-accident-report","tag-road-fatalities-in-middelburg","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Accidents in Middelburg","local news","Mayor Tolo tackles road carnage","middelburg drivers worst by far","middelburg news","road accident report","road fatalities in middelburg","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}