ABOUT US
Welcome to the Road Ethics Project (REP)
Since 2019, we have sparked conversations to change minds and shift behaviour on the roads, to help save lives and prevent life-changing injuries.
A road ethicist asks,
“How should we use the
road traffic system together?”
WHO WE ARE
We are advocates of ethical road use.
WHAT WE DO
We engage people as ethical agents, fostering ethical literacy and promoting Vision Zero and Safe System thinking
WHY WE DO IT
We view the crisis-level road crashes, deaths, injuries and disabilities in South Africa as ethically unacceptable
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Days to achieve 2030 target of halving road deaths
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Actual South African
road deaths when target was 9,960
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fatal South African crashes in 2023
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% of deaths
involve people on foot
Who We Are
History of the Project
REP began in 2019 after co-founder Dr Lee Randall completed her PhD research into the bioethics of Johannesburg minibus crashes. Her key finding was that minibus taxi drivers are an indicator species - like a canary in a coalmine - revealing the crashogenic nature of the South African road traffic system. Although many people blame taxi drivers, the ethical responsibility for tackling minibus taxi crashes is shared among many roleplayers.
