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Less holiday traffic leads to drop in road deaths

THERE was a 7% drop in road fatalities over last year’s festive season compared to the year before, and a 10.3% decline in fatal crashes year-on-year.

This is according to Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula, who announced the festive season statistics yesterday. However, he said

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