Ndebele said road safety was a collective responsibility - "[w]e want to see changes [like those] that happened in Australia," he said. Australia once had a high number of road accidents, but was able to reverse this trend by getting road users to change their behaviour, Ndebele said. The annual average accident rate in South Africa was 33 deaths for every 100 000 people, compared to three in every 100 000 people in the UK. Ndebele called on the government and the private sector to work together as most of the crashes involved company vehicles and employees on-duty.
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