For the first time in five consecutive years, South Africa has reduced its road fatality rate, with 700 fewer people killed on the roads in 2025 compared to the same period last year.
However, despite the decline, the year-to-date death toll stands at more than 9 400 a figure Transport Minister Barbara Creecy yesterday described as still much too high.
Launching the 2025/26 Arrive Alive festive season campaign in Kroonstad under the theme It Starts with Me, Creecy said the reduction represented consistent progress towards the United Nations target of halving road deaths by 2030.
