The festive season is known for two things – annoying Christmas carols in shopping malls, and road fatalities.
There’s something else about divine birth, roast dinner, drunk relatives and capitalism, but we won’t go into that now.
Every year, road deaths increase over the silly season as people abandon all recollection of how to drive and launch themselves onto the roads.
This year, however, overall festive season road fatalities were down 6% (from 262 t0 246). There was also a notable decrease in pedestrian deaths (down from 104 to 91).
These numbers were measured between December 1, 2018, and January 31, 2019.
The reason, reports BusinessTech, is Smart Enforcement Technology interventions.
Western Cape Transport MEC, Donald Grant, notes that this past festive season “a full complement of smart enforcement technologies were deployed across the province” for the first time, in an effort to assist traffic officials in “increasing compliance and saving more lives on our roads”.
These interventions include:
In other words, if you plan on driving drunk or like an idiot (the two aren’t mutually exclusive), there’s smart tech out there that will take you down.
Best take an Uber.
[source:businesstech]
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