Dire Consequences For South African Road Users

[Phillip Coetser]

• The Law Society of South Africa has raised the alarm over proposed changes to the Road Accident Fund Act.
• The amendment bill removes the rights of drivers, passengers and pedestrians to claim compensation for injuries but proposes the fund provide
“social benefits” instead.According to the LSSA, it proposes significant changes to the existing law, including removing the rights of drivers,
passengers and pedestrians to claim compensation for injuries they have suffered. Instead, it proposes that the fund will only provide significantly
reduced “social benefits”.
And, says the LSSA, and I quote, that an innocent injured party would still be denied the common law claim against the guilty party for the balance of his or her loss.
Yet all road users contribute directly or indirectly to the fund through the fuel levy, estimated to be about R45-billion a year.
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