According to N3TC’s Miles le Roux, over 70% of light motor vehicle crashes were attributed to human error while over 80% in heavy vehicles was also due to the same error.
“The guy behind the wheel is responsible for 70% of the problem. The car is about 12%,” said Le Roux.
“Fatigue is a big issue.”
About 26% of the crashes are due to the vehicles leaving the road, 19% are due to the cars rolling and over 16% are head-on collisions which, according to Le Roux are all human errors.
“Those are nearly 60% of all the crashes. If we could deal with that, we could reduce our crashes substantially.
“Vehicles rolling [and] vehicles leaving the road: that’s about speed, that’s about people falling asleep behind the wheel.”