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WHAT A VIEW: A walker admires the view of Simon’s Town from Scale Road Peak, as dramatic clouds hover over the mountain.
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Two die in headon collision DALEEN FOUCHÉ
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HORRIFIC accident on Ou Kaapse Weg claimed the lives of two people in a head-on head collision on Saturday night at 23:00. Warrant Officer Peter Middleton, spokesperson for the Fish Hoek police, says a 32year-old man, driving a white Corsa bakkie, and a 24-year-old man, driving a white Ford Bantam bakkie, were involved in the collision on a bend at the top of the mountain pass. Both died at the scene of the accident. There were no passengers in either cars. The names of the deceased had not been released to the media by the time of going to print. Middleton says the factors that led to the accident are unknown, and there were no witnesses to the collision. He says the road surface was dry at the time of the accident.
An inquest docket has been opened at the Fish Hoek Police Station. On 16 February last year, a woman died in a car accident on Ou Kaapse Weg. Her car had skidded on diesel that had been spilled by a security vehicle about 45 minutes before the accident (“Ou Kaapse Weg claims a life”, People’s Post, 23 February 2010). In February this year, the City of Cape Town decided to implement a new speed limit for Ou Kaapse Weg (“New speed limit for Ou Kaapse Weg, People’s Post, 15 February). The speed limit was reduced from 90km/h to 80km/h. Traffic calming measures were also proposed for the intersection of Ou Kaapse Weg and Silvermine Road, along with the introduction of cat’s eyes for the entire road.
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Some of these measures, however, have not yet been implemented. Councillor Felicity Purchase, chairperson of the South Peninsula Subcouncil, says signs for the new speed limit have been put up along Ou Kaapse Weg. She says the speed limit for most of Ou Kaapse Weg is 80km/ h, with a 70km/h speed limit at the Silvermine intersection. Purchase says the plans for Ou Kaapse Weg have been approved by the City, but the budget still needs to be finalised. She says there will be a meeting on 7 July to discuss Kommetjie Road, where the budget of Ou Kaapse Weg will also be discussed. “There is money available to make the planned changes on Ou Kaapse Weg, but the City only recently finalised its overall bud-
get,” she says. People’s Post requested statistics from the City of Cape Town on accidents that have occurred along the entire length of Ou Kaapse Weg. The City, however, could only provide statistics of accidents at intersections along Ou Kaapse Weg. According to the City, 14 accidents occurred on the intersection of Ou Kaapse Weg and Silvermine Road in 2010, with only one accident resulting in a serious injury. Reasons for these accidents range from a car suddenly stopping, and drivers keeping inadequate following distances, to overtaking without checking. Middleton says that a speed limit is the absolute maximum speed that motorist should travel, and not their average speed. “People should slow down when going around the bend, even if they know the road well,” he says.
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