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Safely Home Road Safety Workshop

27 October 2014

Safely Home, Childsafe and Sanral will host a road safety workshop on 30 October 2014 on Pedestrian Awareness and Pay Day Weekends at Sanral’s Provincial Headquarters in Oakdale.

The workshop is aimed at promoting road safety awareness amongst influential people who can help influence positive behaviour change on Western Cape roads.

Safely Home’s focus in November is on the high number of pedestrians killed in South Africa and in the Western Cape. To date, no fewer than 448 pedestrians have been killed on Western Cape roads in 2014.

Safely Home will also be looking at the road trauma peaks experienced on pay day weekends, the phenomenon called the Pay Day Blues.

10:00 to 10.05WelcomeProfessor Sebastian van As
Head: Trauma Unit, Red Cross Children’s Hospital
Chair: Childsafe SA
10.05 to 10.20Overview: The Road Trauma Pandemic.
The Pay Day Blues.

Mr Hector Eliott
Chief Director: Road Safety Co-ordination, Western Cape 
Department of Transport & Public Works

10:20 to 10:35Pedestrians on FreewaysMr Randall Cable
Engineering Manager: Operations
Sanral
10:35 to 10:50Pedestrians in the Metropolitan EnvironmentMr Sean Glass
Manager
Network Facilitation and Development
10:50 to 12:00 Discussion 

 

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Media Enquiries: 

Siphesihle Dube
Spokesperson for Donald Grant, Minister of Transport and Public Works
Tel: 021 483 8954
Cell: 084 233 3811
E-mail: siphesihle.dube@westerncape.gov.za