JOHANNESBURG – As a connecting area to two countries and four provinces Mpumalanga has been highlighted as a potential accident hotspot going into the Christmas period. The provisional festive season road statistics, which were released by the Transport Department on Friday afternoon, showed that the province recorded the fourth highest road deaths since the first of this month. ALSO READ: ‘We can do better’: Sindisiwe Chikunga to all festive season road users Gauteng traffic officials on high alert as holiday goers leave the province For the period in review, Mpumalanga had 81 fatalities on the roads, representing a 6.6% increase compared to the same period last year. Transport MEC Vusi Shongwe said while the number of crashes in the province…
