Minister of Transport, Barbara Creecy. Picture: Supplied While Gauteng saw a 12% reduction in crashes, it remains the leading contributor to the festive-season road fatalities toll. On Friday, Transport Minister Barbara Creecy provided an update on the 2025 festive season road safety campaign.
Creecy said the country saw fewer road fatalities in the first half of December this year (1 December to 16 December) than in the same period last year. Preliminary reports indicate a 20.9% reduction in fatal crashes and 20.8% reduction in fatalities in the middle of December. However, holiday crashes continue to claim lives.
In the Western Cape alone, 66 people were killed in 55 crashes in the first half of December. While Gauteng reduced crashes by 12%, it remains the leading contributor to the death toll. In Gauteng, 105 people were killed in 95 crashes, and in KwaZulu-Natal, there were 88 fatalities in 85 crashes.
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The Eastern Cape recorded 52 fatalities in 45 crashes, Mpumalanga has 69 fatalities in 50 crashes, North West has 34 deaths in 28 crashes, Limpopo has 40 road deaths in 34 crashes and Northern Cape has 31 road deaths in 20 crashes. The Free State, with a 67.2% decrease in fatalities, is the best-performing province, reducing major crashes from 40 last year to 19 this year and road deaths from 61 to 20. Nationally, the total number of fatal crashes at this time last year was 545, compared with 431 this year. The fatal crashes took 638 lives last year compared to 505 people this year.
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