The N1 has been named the city's most dangerous road in the City of Cape Town's annual traffic accident report.
The report, which is based on 2005 statistics, was made public last week.
The city's transport director, Maddie Mazaza, said accident statistics were held up by lengthy police investigations and had be posted on the national e-Natis system first, so the city's figures lagged by two years.
The figures, for the metro region, show that the N1 had the most fatalities, followed by the N2 and the R300 freeway, during 2005.
The Greater Cape Town stretch of the N1 registered at least 31 fatalities, 45 serious accidents and 399 slight accidents.
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The N2 had 74 serious accidents with 23 fatalities on the stretch between Khayelitsha and Cape Town. At least 397 slight accidents were recorded along this stretch.
The R300 had 18 deaths in 21 serious accidents, with 106 slight accidents.
The N7 was another hotspot, with 15 fatalities and 41 accidents. Lansdowne Road recorded 12 fatalities, 93 serious accidents and 331 slight accidents.
The R300 section near Delft, listed as the third most dangerous road in the latest list, was rated the deadliest in the city in a month-on-month Metro Police report last February.
That report, which listed the top 24 worst roads, found Baden Powell Drive to be the second most dangerous and the N2 third.
In the latest report, five fatalities were registered on Baden Powell, with 10 serious accidents and 38 slight accidents.
The most dangerous intersections were at the junction of Stellenbosch Arterial and Belhar Road, De la Rey and Modderdam and Duinefontein and Modderdam roads, with at least 55 accidents at each spot.
There were 51 crashes at the intersection of the R300 and Stellenbosch Arterial, while Stock Road AZ Berman Drive near Mitchells Plain had 46.
Weekends were the worst time for accidents involving pedestrians, with 56 percent of accidents happening on Fridays and 44 percent on Saturdays and Sundays between 8pm and 10pm.
At least 10 412 drivers were involved in accidents, with most vulnerable group between the ages of 26 and 45.
The economic cost of these accidents exceeded R2,7-million, says the report. There was an increase of 8 percent in the cost of accidents in the city since 2004.
JP Smith, Mayco member for safety and security, said although the accident report was more than two years old, it remained "pretty consistent" with today's accident patterns on the listed roads.
Smith said the lack of law enforcement on these roads remained a concern.
"We need more traffic enforcement on our roads… in our budget request, we have proposed to the city to have an extra 105 traffic officers to do speed enforcement on our roads. The city has already approved 35 officers to be put on roads by the end of this financial year in June. Another 35 will be deployed in August and 35 will be added to the taxi unit from December."
- This article was originally published on page 1 of Cape Argus on May 12, 2008
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