SABER AHMED JAZBHAY | Newlands West When I last drove along the highway from the airport in Cape Town, I couldn’t help notice this massive signboard “If you drink and drive, you are a killer”. I agree.
Unfortunately, alcohol consumption and driving motor vehicles don’t, pardon the expression, “mix well”, and this has led to a great deal of human tragedy, or carnage, on our roads. Fact number one is that, apart from the human cost, there’s an enormous burden placed on our already fragile economy.
In 2016, the economic loss ascribed to motor vehicle crashes amounted to R306 billion per annum. Fact number two is that about 14 000 people die annually (as at 2016), which translates to 25.1 deaths per 100 000 of the population. Fact number 3,…