Driving road safety education and awareness
Our Road Safety – Powered by Motus initiative drives road safety education and awareness among school children, parents and holidaymakers in South Africa. We partner with leading road safety advocates and the government to change the behaviours of road users towards more responsible road usage.
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Programme
Delivers memorable life-saving road safety messages in a fun and interactive way for primary school children and their teachers. Around 18 schools were visited each month. In response to COVID-19, this initiative was expanded to include health and hygiene messaging.
Provides the Bakwena Platinum Corridor Concessionaire with patrol vehicles to assist the concessionaire with 24-hour visible policing and faster response times to incidents (crashes and breakdowns), along the N1/N4 toll routes – the busiest toll routes in South Africa during the Easter and December holiday seasons.
Renault is Wheel Well's drop-off point of choice for parents wanting to donate used baby car seats. Wheel Well then refurbishes the seats and donates them to people who cannot afford new car seats.
| 1 | Supported by the Department of Basic Education and the Department of Transport. |
#MobilityForGood
The six vehicles sponsored by Kia in the 2021 December Highway Patrol Programme collectively travelled 76 783 kilometres on the N1/N4 toll route, participated in 10 roadblocks, assisted at 120 crashes, assisted 162 stranded motorists, stopped 2 741 vehicles and issued 687 AARTO notices.
2022 highlights
- We celebrated our 10th anniversary of supporting our road safety initiatives.
- We are exploring the feasibility of consolidating all our road safety communication onto a single platform to integrate our road safety efforts across more of our community initiatives. This will allow us to consolidate all our messaging and partnerships in one forum and allow visibility regarding the ongoing impact Motus is striving to achieve.
- For transport month (October), and working with the Department of Basic Education, we delivered safe scholar talks to six schools along the R553, which has a high number of road incidents and scholar fatalities. Before holding the talks, each school principal completed a road safety survey. Surveys are conducted every month until October 2022 to monitor the impact of the initiative. At the time of reporting there had been no reported incidents involving any of these schools on this stretch of road.
- The support received from traffic departments and community safety officers has been most welcome, with their attendance at over 80% of our activations.
The Road Safety – Powered by Motus (impact since 2011)
Over 1,96 million
learners reached in over 2 300 schools
(2021: over 1,75 million learners reached in over 2 080 schools)
We estimate that we will achieve the milestone of two million learners reached towards the end of the 2022 calendar year
102 300
reflective sashes given to children to wear while walking on the road
(2021: 98 900)
Our investment
R1,5 million
invested during the year
(2021: R1,3 million)
Highway Patrol Programme
12
patrol vehicles sponsored during the Festive and Easter periods
(2021: 12)
#MobilityForGood
Library assistants trained by Motus as road safety advocates delivered fun-filled road safety awareness to Grade R up to Grade 3 school children.