As a comparison: More South Africans were killed/died on our roads in vehicle accidents in ONE year than US soldiers in the Iraq war! And our total population is only 49m so you can do the sums of approximately how many drivers we have on our roads.
DaveM and DaveB - please correct me here if I've got the numbers/comparison wrong.
Over the year we lose about 30 people a day on the roads- that's about 11,000 a year.
We've discussed Joburg taxis. We also get rigs like this on our roads from time to time:
