MEC Schafer concerned about child pedestrian deaths

Lusanda Bill
14 October 2014

Western Cape MEC of Education Debbie Schafer on Monday said it is time that communities change behaviours and attitudes towards road safety. 

This as this year alone at least 55 small children have been knocked down and killed on roads in the province; most were killed on busy roads in the Metro. 

MEC Schafer said a large number of children pedestrian deaths occur in poorer communities. 

Ministerial Spokesperson for the Department of Transport and Public Works Siphesihle Dube said MEC Schafer visited Nkazimlo Primary School in Makhaza, Khayelitsha on Monday which was the sight where as a young boy Inga Mtekwana was killed in August this year, when he was run over by a taxi at the scholar patrol outside the school.

“MEC Schafer highlighted the need for better visibility and a focus on improving the conditions in which children travel to and from school” Dube added.