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Limpopo roads among most dangerous in South Africa

The Road Traffic Management Corporation has released the top 20 high-accident routes in South Africa.

POLOKWANE – If you travel from Gauteng to the Limpopo, it is inevitable that you will travel on one of the high-accident routes.

The N1 between Mokopane and Polokwane is regarded as the third most dangerous road to travel in South Africa and the N2 between Polokwane and Makhado has the forth highest accident route.

Travelling between Mokopane and Mookgopong, on the N1, you will travel on the ninth highest-accident route. The R71 between Polokwane and Tzaneen is the tenth dangerous road to travel in South Africa.

Between Hoedspruit and Hazeview, is the R40, and the eleventh high- accident road. If you travel on the R573 Moloto road from Gauteng, Limpopo to Mpumalanga you will be travelling on the 18th highest accident road.

What is disturbing is that 50% off the top ten highest-accident routes are around Mokopane, Mookgopong and Polokwane.

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The top 20 high-accident routes in South Africa.

  1. East London – UmtataN2
  2. Umtata – Kokstad N2
  3. Mokopane – Polokwane N1
  4. Polokwane – Makhado N2
  5. Middelburg – BelfastN4
  6. Durban – TongaatN2
  7. Springs – WitbankN12
  8. Pretoria – KwaMhlanga (Gauteng)R573
  9. Naboomspruit – MokopaneN1
  10. Polokwane – TzaneenR71
  11. Hazyview – HoedspruitR40
  12. Port St Johns – BizanaR61
  13. Cape Town – Somerset WestN2
  14. King Williams Town – East LondonN2
  15. Queenstown –UmtataR61
  16. Free State: Warden – VilliersN3
  17. Waterval boven – NelspruitN4
  18. Moloto Road (GAU, MPU, LIM)R573
  19. Coligny – Biesiesvlei (North West)N14
  20. Leandra – ErmeloN17

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N1 road between Mookgophong and Modimolle now open

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Raeesa Sempe

Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard

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