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The government's new road safety plan has resulted in 34 000 unroadworthy vehicles being impounded in the past six months, Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has announced.
Almost nine million vehicles had been stopped at roadblocks, 3.5-million fines issued and 13 877 allegedly inebriated drivers arrested, the transport department claimed. Its National Rolling Enforcement Plan was implemented in October, 2011 in an effort to stop and check a million vehicles a month as a way to reduce road deaths.
It is said, Ndebele stated at the launch of a “Decade of Action for Road Safety" that “as of May 2011, no less than 10 000 drivers will be screened every month for drinking and driving".
AARTO SUMMIT
Furthermore, Ndebele said the department would announce (yet another) date for the national roll-out of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act and the points demerit system that accompanies it.
A draft amendment to the Aarto regulations was published in the Government Gazette on April 15, 2011 and comments invited.
"We are still busy with consultation and do not want to rush the consultation process. As part of the consultation, we will also host an Aarto summit," he explained.
The ministry said it was also considering proposals for a total ban on alcohol consumption before driving, or lowering the current legal alcohol limit.
Almost nine million vehicles had been stopped at roadblocks, 3.5-million fines issued and 13 877 allegedly inebriated drivers arrested, the transport department claimed. Its National Rolling Enforcement Plan was implemented in October, 2011 in an effort to stop and check a million vehicles a month as a way to reduce road deaths.
It is said, Ndebele stated at the launch of a “Decade of Action for Road Safety" that “as of May 2011, no less than 10 000 drivers will be screened every month for drinking and driving".
AARTO SUMMIT
Furthermore, Ndebele said the department would announce (yet another) date for the national roll-out of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act and the points demerit system that accompanies it.
A draft amendment to the Aarto regulations was published in the Government Gazette on April 15, 2011 and comments invited.
"We are still busy with consultation and do not want to rush the consultation process. As part of the consultation, we will also host an Aarto summit," he explained.
The ministry said it was also considering proposals for a total ban on alcohol consumption before driving, or lowering the current legal alcohol limit.
