RISE Mzansi concerned over 4,500 pedestrian deaths on highways [SOUND]

# RISE Mzansi expressed concern over 4-thousand-500 pedestrian deaths recorded on South Africa’s major highways in the past three years. Spokesperson Makashule Gana says according to Transport Department data, the N2 recorded the highest fatalities at one-thousand-500, followed by the N1 with one-thousand-200, N3 with one-thousand and N4 with 800. He says South Africa’s road death rate of over 20 per 100-thousand people far exceeds the global average of four to five: