2024

Index

Victim Support | Trial: Aksel Otterbeck
April 2024 – News Update on Media Campaign
April 2024 – kommetjie Road Safety Project
May 2024 – Msunduzi Municipality
End of September 2024
World Day of Remembrance of Road Traffic Victims- WDoR:  2024
December 2024: Update of Mobility Snapshot Kommetjie, Cape Town (a SADD & Global Alliance project)
Festive Season 2024

Victim Support | Trial: Aksel Otterbeck

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‘You had a choice, but you became a killer’ – Parents want prison for driver who killed son

Read more at Daily Maverick

April 2024:  News Update on Media campaign

SADD has worked with the Western Cape Transport Department and is very proud to share this information, and to have helped save many lives in the WC.

#TogetherWeCan #BoozeFreeRoads  #MakeItSafe  #CommitToAct  #StreetsForLife #Love30km #SafelyHome

“Thank you for your contribution to making the Western Cape roads safer through your content, shared on SADD’s social media platforms over the years. 

We truly appreciate your partnership, and the passion and dedication you have brought to this project.
Thanks to your contribution, we have managed to achieve significant reductions in the fatality rate since 2013. 

To date, we’ve achieved a 43% reduction in the death rate of passengers, 39% amongst drivers and 12% amongst pedestrians. 

You have played a role in saving the lives of 4,037 people (1,591 passengers; 1,526 pedestrians; 920 drivers).”

April 2024: Kommetjie road safety project

#MakeltSafe and #CommitToAct campaign for #StreetsForLife in Kommetjie-Western Cape
A new housing development in Kommetjie will see an extra +/- 400->500 vehicIes being fed into a long road, Wireless rd. from Riverside rd. Wireless rd. has many pedestrians, children, cyclists, the elderly, runners, people going to the beach etc. using this road during the day with there being no pavements or traffic calming measures in place. The speed limit of 60km is already much too high, and in addition many vehicle already speed above this limit. SADD have been meeting with, and corresponding with the engineers from the City of Cape Town, the mayor, the developer and the community to make this intersection safer, as everyone has a right for safe roads and #StreetsForLife.

May 2024 | #MakeItSafe #CommitToAct campaign, Msunduzi Municipality

Msunduzi Municipality. SADD director Caro Smit meets with Municipality traffic staff Jan Vermaak & Inspector Maluleko at Loop str SAPS. Discussed serious matters e.g. potholes, robots not working, vehicles parked illegally, taxis disobeying traffic laws.

 

End September 2024

SADD were invited to join the newly formed #ProjectEDWARDsa where we work together with Road Traffic Management Corporation, (RTMC) Transport Dept. and other South African road safety NGO’s.  (Edward = Every Day Without A Road Death)

The Department of Transport and RTMC have recognized that it would be advantageous if they  tap into the expertise of highly trained NGO’s who have worked tirelessly in this field for many years.

Weekly meetings are held.

World Day of Remembrance of Road Traffic Victims- WDoR: 2024

12 November: Caro Smit did a teaching PowerPoint presentation to the #ProjectEDWARDsa team on how to run a WDoR event.

16th November: Launch of WDoR event at Ster Kinekor, Cape Town, with the film, “DEARS IN THE HEADLIGHTS”

“In the shadow of an unimaginable loss, Philli finds an unlikely muse: the lifeless forms of animals claimed by the road. As she meticulously taxidermies road kill, each stitch and pose becomes a profound act of healing amidst burning grief. Art becomes life, and life, in turn, becomes art, as Philli transforms tragedy into something hauntingly beautiful. Her mother, Caro, channels her grief at losing her son, Chas, in a road crash, on a different canvas—public activism. Founding SADD (South Africans Against Drunk Driving), she wages a relentless campaign to prevent others from suffering her same fate. Caro’s battle is both personal and universal, a crusade to bring meaning to a senseless loss. “Dears in the Headlights” is an unexpected meditation on the strange, often surreal ways we cope with loss. It captures the delicate dance between art and life, where each informs and reshapes the other. Through Philli and Caro’s parallel journeys, the film illuminates how, even in the darkest moments, the human spirit finds ways to create, to fight, and ultimately, to heal.”

December 2024: Update of Mobility Snapshot Kommetjie, Cape Town (a SADD & Global Alliance project)

Promoting road safety in the community- looking at and promoting #Love30km and the rights and facilities for pedestrians and cyclists, like separated sidewalks.

We have worked tirelessly with the contractor, Red Cliff and City of Cape Town engineers, and a separated pedestrian /cycling walkway was put in, and permission has been given for a 3-way STOP to be erected, in the near future, to bring down speeding at a dangerous intersection.

Unfortunately we have not manged to get the speed reduced yet, but will continue advocating for this is 2025.

Festive Season 2024

Over the Festive Season: We were very involved with giving our recommendations on how to bring down our very preventable road deaths, how to run drink driving campaigns and asking for road crashes to be classed as a National Disaster.

Here are some of Caro Smits interviews & newspaper articles