Transport Minister Dullah Omar launches a Public Traffic Call Centre In Limpopo

07 October 2003

Transport Minister, Abdulah M. Omar will launch a pilot project of the National Public Call Centre in Limpopo on October 13, 2003 in Xhimungwe sport ground near Bushbuckridge.

The Public Traffic Call Centre will give easy access to all public road transport passengers on buses and minibus taxis to report unsafe vehicles and reckless and negligent driver behaviour as well as fraud and corruption within the traffic situation.

The Call Centre will also provide the general road user public with the opportunity to report blatant moving violations such as ignoring red traffic lights and illegal and unsafe overtaking and overloading as well as fraud and corruption at Vehicle Testing Stations and Driving Licence Testing Centres.

Incidents and accidents can also be reported and the Centre will also be a source of limited road traffic information, such as road and traffic conditions. Reports on courteous, good and helpful driver behaviour can also be submitted and will be recorded at the Centre.

The information collected by the Centre will, amongst other, be utilised for advising the registered owner of the vehicle by letter of the nature and location of the alleged offence.

Through the centre will would be able to identify regular offenders and request senior officials to meet with such persons and explain the unacceptability of their regular alleged contraventions and the dangers involved.

The centre will also prepare and distribute reports to the SAPS and the relevant traffic authority on the routes and/or locations where stolen vehicles and vehicles with false registration plates were observed, where regular traffic offences occur and also where cases of fraud and corruption were observed.

Collected information will also be used for identification of the most frequently reported traffic offences and comparing these with the reported contributory factors of traffic accidents at specific locations and also the identification of courteous and helpful road users and traffic officers.

The information will further be used in conjunction with information obtained from road traffic offence monitoring surveys and fatal accident information to jointly provide input for the preparation of road traffic law-enforcement action plans and programmes.

The Minister would be joined by the MEC of Transport in Limpopo, Rev Dean Farisani, provincial portfolio committee on transport, community organizations and stakeholders in the road traffic fraternity.

Issued by Ndivhuwo Mabaya Media Liaison Officer Ministry of Transport Cell: 082 908 0054