HOLIDAY makers planning to travel along the N3 ahead of the long weekend and December holidays are urged to plan their commute carefully, and to drive carefully as traffic along the route is expected to spike.

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N3 Toll Concession (N3TC), the company managing the N3 Toll Route between Cedara in KwaZulu-Natal and Heidelberg in Gauteng, expect that the traffic volumes will spike up to 3 500 vehicles per hour on peak days.

“Slow moving conditions are expected when traffic volumes are high. Heavy volumes can spike up to 2 000 to 3 500 vehicles per hour on peak days,” said Miles le Roux of N3TC.

He said early predictions were that southbound traffic would increase between noon and 3pm on Friday, 13 December with the pace slowing from 3pm to 6pm and busy traffic from 6pm to 9pm.

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On Saturday traffic would be busy from 3am to 6am, with high volumes entering the province between 6am and 3pm and continuing to 6pm.

“Of the total number of crashes recorded during the first 10 months of 2019, the main types of crashes were single vehicles leaving the road or rolling, followed by head-tail collisions, side wipes and multiple pile-ups,” he said.

He added that single vehicle crashes, which is said to be the direct result of human error, are by far the most frequent kind of crash that is reported along the N3 Toll Route.

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Stats revealed that of the 933 cases reported between January and October 2019, 315 cars and 255 trucks were involved in single vehicle crashes,” he said.

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