{"id":12667,"date":"2012-07-23T13:18:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/deaths-on-south-african-roads\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T13:18:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:18:39","slug":"deaths-on-south-african-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/deaths-on-south-african-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaths on South African Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>After the horrific accident over the weekend, which involved the Cradock Primary School, it got me wondering \u2013 what is the difference \u2013 if you collide with a train on South African roads, which results in deaths, the driver is now arrested and charged with murder. If you are the cause of an accident with another motor vehicle, which results in a death, you may face culpable homicide charges. What is the difference when both acts may have been caused from recklessly ignoring road signs? Perhaps if charges were more serious when breaking laws in the country and law enforcement took their jobs a bit more seriously, we wouldn\u2019t have such a high mortality rate on SA roads.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<br \/><strong>Janine Meyburgh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Notes: <a title=\"Cradock Primary School Crash\" href=\"http:\/\/mycradock.co.za\/tag\/cradockcrash0721\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the crash on MyCradock<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the horrific accident over the weekend, which involved the Cradock Primary School, it got me wondering \u2013 what is the difference \u2013 if you collide with a train on South African roads, which results in deaths, the driver is now arrested and charged with murder. If you are the cause of an accident with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-12667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}