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Lower-risk driving routes in Ekurhuleni

Ekurhuleni is the East Rand: Kempton Park, Benoni, Boksburg, Germiston, Springs, and the belt around OR Tambo. Most drivers pass through it without thinking, because the airport run and the N12 and N17 freight routes cut straight across. Its share of top-band areas is among the highest on the map, level with Johannesburg and well clear of Pretoria.

Rated ground in Ekurhuleni, with 20 reported hotspots. Tsamaya names roads, never neighbourhoods.

Areas rated high risk, by time of day

459

areas rated high risk at night, 19:30 to 05:00

  • Daytime, 05:00 to 17:30 286
  • Evening, 17:30 to 19:30 320
  • Night, 19:30 to 05:00 459

Of the 732 rated areas in Ekurhuleni, these are the ones at the highest of the four risk levels, for each of the three times of day. Every figure comes straight from the live database, read on 3 November 2026. The lowest band means an area was checked and carries no routing penalty, which is different from an area we have no data for. A rating describes an area's history of vehicle crime, not what is happening on a street right now: lower risk is not no risk.

Hotspots

20 reported hotspots in Ekurhuleni

Off-ramps, intersections and stretches of road where hijackings and smash-and-grabs have been reported. The app marks them on the map and gives a spoken heads-up as you approach one. They are awareness only: a hotspot never changes your route, and this is not a complete list.

Hijacking 5

  • cnr Kelvin Street & CR Swart Drive
  • Elgin Road & Pretoria Road
  • Knights Road bridge
  • N17 near Dalpark Toll Plaza
  • Snake Road

Smash-and-grab 15

  • Boeing Road & William Nicol Drive
  • Bunyan Street on- and off-ramps
  • Great North Road & Dann Road
  • Jack Road & Refinery Road
  • Johan Rissik Road & Junction Road
  • Lower Boksburg Road & Simon Bekker Street
  • M2 off-ramp to Refinery Road
  • Main Reef Road & Field Road
  • Main Reef Road & Snake Road
  • N17 off-ramp to Black Reef Road
  • Power Road & Refinery Road
  • Pretoria Road & Shamrock Road
  • Range View Road & Dewalt Hattingh Road
  • Rietfontein Road & Shamrock Road
  • Snake Road off-ramp at the N12

Compiled from public reporting (SAPS, NHPA/Arrive Alive, regional news). Approximate and not a complete list. Positions are approximate. Each hotspot is labelled by its road: Tsamaya names roads, never the neighbourhoods around them.

Driving here

What to know on these roads

  1. 01

    The R21 and N12 around OR Tambo carry a lot of drivers who do not know the area. That is exactly who this is for.

  2. 02

    Freight is a big part of why. Truck hijacking shows up in the crime data along the N12 and N17, and those roads carry the ratings to match.

Tsamaya rates roads and routes. It does not publish a list of neighbourhoods, and the app never labels a place for anyone other than the driver about to pass through it.

Questions

Ekurhuleni, asked

Yes. The approaches on the R21, N12 and the roads around them are mapped, with separate ratings for day, evening and night.

Effectively yes. Ekurhuleni is the municipality covering what most people still call the East Rand: Kempton Park, Benoni, Boksburg, Germiston and Springs.

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