Minister of Transport, Blade Nzimande, will officially launch the 2019 Easter Road Safety Campaign on Monday.
This event is taking place at a Media and Stakeholder Breakfast held at the Golden Horse Hotel in Pietermaritzburg., Minister Nzimande says the focus of the campaign is alcohol abuse as it still remains a big factor in road crashes. He says what is interesting about this campaign, is the launch of the Evidential Breathalyser machine.
A person will blow two or three times into the machine and the lowest level is taken as the official result. He says: “Because this is an instant result, it means a person can be charged and sentenced immediately. We will no longer have to wait for laboratory results which can take up to six months.”This involves re-classifying drunk driving as a higher schedule offence in terms of the Criminal Procedures Act.