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Lower-risk driving routes in Pretoria

Pretoria sits at the top of the busiest commuter run in the country, and a good share of the driving here is the daily trip down the Ben Schoeman and back. The city has a tight, dense centre wrapped in long arterial roads, which gives it a very different shape from Johannesburg.

Rated ground in Pretoria, with 25 reported hotspots. Tsamaya names roads, never neighbourhoods.

Areas rated high risk, by time of day

205

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

  • Daytime, 05:00 to 17:30 134
  • Evening, 17:30 to 19:30 142
  • Night, 19:30 to 05:00 205

Of the 486 rated areas in Pretoria, 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

25 reported hotspots in Pretoria

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 17

  • Atterbury Road off-ramp, N1
  • cnr Simon Vermooten Road & Pretoria Street
  • Delfi Avenue and Garsfontein Road intersection
  • E'skia Mphahlele Drive
  • Hans Strijdom Drive and R21 intersection
  • Hans Strydom off-ramp N4
  • Jean Avenue off-ramp, R28
  • John Vorster Drive off-ramp, N1
  • Lynnwood Road and Hans Strijdom Drive intersection
  • Lynnwood Road off-ramp, N1
  • Nelson Mandela Drive traffic lights
  • Paul Kruger Street
  • R55
  • Rigel Avenue off-ramp, N1
  • Simon Vermooten Road and Lynnwood Road intersection
  • University Road and Lynnwood Road intersection
  • Walker Street traffic lights

Smash-and-grab 8

  • Burnett Street and Hilda Street
  • De Villebois Mareuil Drive and Garsfontein Road intersection
  • Fountains Circle
  • N1 and Garsfontein Road interchange
  • N14 Eufees off-ramp
  • Nossob Street and Delmas Road intersection
  • Roger Dyson / Eeufees Road traffic lights
  • Simon Vermooten Road and N4 intersection

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 Ben Schoeman and the N4 both carry protective ratings. An early version of the data flagged a stretch of the Ben Schoeman badly enough that it would have pushed traffic onto side roads. A validation check caught it before it shipped.

  2. 02

    Most of Pretoria's flagged areas sit in the middle and caution bands rather than the top one, so a lot of what you see on the map is marked without changing your route.

  3. 03

    The CBD and the areas immediately around it change rating between the daytime and evening bands more often than the outer suburbs do.

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

Pretoria, asked

The mapped area covers the Tshwane metro, including Centurion, Mamelodi, Atteridgeville and the eastern suburbs, not only the central city.

Yes. The N1 between Pretoria and Johannesburg is mapped from both ends, and both metros are live, so a trip across the two is treated as one drive rather than stopping at a boundary.

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