Traffic News | Incident Management raises reckless driving concerns | 18 Dec 2025
Since the start of the summer holiday period, we’ve seen very high traffic volumes on the N3 Toll Route, along with a concerning increase in reckless and impatient driving.
Motorists are speeding, ignoring warning signs, and failing to slow down in the persistent wet weather along the route.
This behaviour is directly putting lives at risk, including those of emergency responders working at crash scenes.
We urge motorists to slow down, obey the rules of the road, heed warnings, drive defensively, and follow the instructions of incident management teams and law enforcement.
These are not optional. They are simple actions that prevent crashes and save lives.
Route Update | Peak Summer Holiday Season | 10 December 2025
MOST CRASHES ON THE N3 TOLL ROUTE INVOLVE A SINGLE VEHICLE ONLY
As South Africa heads into its peak summer travel season, ongoing analysis of crash patterns on the busy N3 Toll Route, the portion of the N3 linking Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, point to concerning trends in driver behaviour. A review of N3TC’s crash data highlights a persistent crash trend: single vehicle crashes remain the dominant crash type recorded on the N3 Toll Route.
During the previous summer holiday season (Dec 2024), single-vehicle crashes accounted for 53.5% of all crashes on the N3 Toll Route, while 60.4% of crashes recorded between January and November this year involved one vehicle only.
“Crashes where drivers lose control of their vehicles, and either veer off the road or roll their vehicles, highlight just how much motorists are putting themselves and others at risk,” says Thania Dhoogra, chief operating officer of N3 Toll Concession (N3TC), which manages the N3 between Cedara in KwaZulu-Natal and Heidelberg in Gauteng.
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