Action now needed to save lives on South African roads

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January 2017 was a terrible month for cyclists. At least three cyclists - Delene Boonzaaier, Andrew Bradford and Gregory Basson – were killed when struck from behind by motorists. In two of the cases, the drivers fled the scene.

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[City Cycling Athletic Club]

Nice one Cape Times - you run an ad/article on cycling safety which makes a point of drunk driving killing cyclists and pedestrians and then have an article by a famous actor who advocates how to stay sober when drinking alcohol all weekend right next to it.

[ZakAttak]

Eish... that is brilliant news editing!

[carbon29er]

Eish... that is brilliant news editing!

That's the Cape Times for you. I don't think there is one brain cell left in the sub-editing department.

 

And the editor is too busy worrying someone is going to punch his boss in the stomach as he doesn't want to get a black eye.

[Mamil]

The way we saffers deal with alcohol is not great imo. Too many of us seem to define a good time in terms of how much of this massively powerful central nervous system depressant we can consume. The alcohol industry has a lot to answer for I believe - at least as much as the tobacco sellers.