According to Free State Emergency Services (EMS) communications manager, Sipho Towa, the road accident rate has dropped with approximately 140 less accidents this festive season compared to 2019. Towa says that the province recorded a fatality rate of 54 which has dropped from last years rate of 123.

Sipho tells OFM that with regards to road blocks they managed to initiate 56 drinking and driving tests where one person was arrested and three vehicles confiscated for driving unauthorised on the roads.

OFM NEWS/BLAINE JONES