EMPD: Let’s work together and save lives this festive season
The end-of-year festive season is marked by high traffic volumes along arterial routes.
These traffic volumes coincide with the year-end school and industry closure periods, as well as the Christmas and New Year long weekends.
The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department will significantly step-up road safety operations during the 2013 festive season, in order to reduce fatalities on our roads.
The EMPD will be taking a zero tolerance approach with regard to drunken driving and reckless driving, un-roadworthy vehicles and revelers bent on causing mayhem, by way of visible and proactive enforcement throughout the festive period.
Road safety is the responsibility of all road-users.
Motorists are implored to ensure that their vehicles are fit to be on the road and that they possess valid documentation.
Cyclists are encouraged to wear safety head-gear and pedestrians are advised to desist from jay-walking and using the freeways, and to wear visible clothing at night.
The EMPD commits to making the city safer for all its citizens and those visiting by intensifying visibility patrols, targeting both crime and accident hotspots as well as all places vulnerable to criminality.
Members of the community are urged to report criminal activities taking place or activities they suspect are about to take place.
“I would like to wish the Ekurhuleni community a peaceful and safe festive season and implore drivers to be considerate at all times and to act in a responsible manner on our roads”, said EMPD Chief of Police Hlula Msimang.
“Let us obey the rules of the road to the letter, so as to arrive comfortably and safely at our destinations.
“Let us ensure that safety belts are used and that children are also properly restrained during the road trips.
“Motorists are urged to plan thoroughly for the journeys they will be undertaking, and to identify safe way points, in order to avert the dangerous element of fatigue.”
