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With the welcoming of spring comes a very shocking spate of road accidents in the Sedibeng region, especially in Sebokeng's Moshoeshoe Street where a countless number of people have lost their lives in recent weeks.

In too many instances residents have been left in shock and trauma after witnessing blood and dead bodies being splashed all over pavements and roads after fatal accidents. During many of these horror accidents bystanders and police are usually able to point out a culprit who, through negligence or absent-mindedness, caused the accident. However it is impossible to say for sure what the sole reason for these accidents is.

Also surprising is that the number of road accidents in Moshoeshoe Street specifically, had not been this high in the winter months, but now that trees and flowers are starting to blossom, more so do these indecent tragedies.

Looking at the structure of Moshoeshoe Street, one is easily convinced that this road was designed to be accident proof, as it is decorated with robots and stop streets at a fair distance apart. Yet these do not seem to be helping. Are pedestrians being careless in assuming that motorists will yield for them when they cross roads? On the other side of the fence one wonders: Are motorists being careless and reckless on the roads?

There is also the issue of robots that are usually out of order and when this happens, for some reason, motorists simply do not use these crossings as stop streets. Strangely enough, when a robot does not work in one of the Central Business Districts, Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark or Sasolburg, the very motorists who refuse to stop at the malfunctioning Moshoeshoe Street robot, stop and yield for each other in an orderly fashion. Very puzzling, indeed.

On a number of occasions, the community and officials in this region have gone to great extents, including praying at street corners to try and combat this phenomenon, but to no avail. Ultimately this is not a problem that can be solved by a simple search on Google or by paging through a few pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica, it is going to take hard work and cooperation for the community to find a solution.

All that can be said now is that all individuals who are road users - pedestrians and motorists alike - need to take it upon themselves to fight killer road accidents by being more cautious.

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