New report identifies most perilous Swazi roads

MBABANE – Swaziland’s most dangerous roads have been identified by the National Road Safety Council, though recommendations to make them safer to commercial and private users were lacking from their report. The deadliest stretch of highway in terms of accident frequency is an eight-kilometre stretch south of the Hhelehhele junction east of the commercial town Manzini headed south to Big Bend, the location of sugar plantations and a molasses distillery. The report counters the common belief that the stretch of the main M4 highway along Malagwane Hill in Mbabane is the country’s most accidentprone.