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FILE | A crash scene
The Road Traffic Infringement Authority (RTIA) says it hopes the implementation of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act will help to change driver behaviour.
The act will take effect on December the first.
It seeks to improve road safety, hold offenders accountable and introduce a points demerit system that could see repeat offenders going for rehabilitation and re-applying for their driver’s license.
The authority’s spokesperson is Monde Mkalipi, “The Arto has been implemented in Tshwane and in Joburg for a few years. And now, in fact, that has been part of the pilot, that has resulted into us now seeing that we are ready to implement this legislation to the rest of the country. Arto actually is the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act, which is the legislation that is mainly aims to change the behaviour of the road users. The big challenge that we have in South Africa, we have an increase, an ongoing increase in terms of fatalities that occur on our roads.”
