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Lower-risk driving routes in Secunda

One of the smallest places on the map, and the first that was mapped outside the two big provincial centres. It is here because of the N17, which carries a great deal of shift traffic and freight through the petrochemical belt, much of it driven in the dark at either end of a shift.

63risk zones mapped
29in the top band at midday
50in the top band after dark

What the data looks like here

63 mapped areas across Secunda.

Every area is rated three times over, once each for daytime, evening and night, because risk in South African metros does not hold still across a day. Here is how Secunda’s 63 areas fall across the bands at each of those hours.

Figures read directly from the live database, not typed by hand. The lowest band means an area was checked and carries no routing penalty, which is different from an area we have no data for. No area in the country is rated worse by day than it is at night, so the night bar is also the worst case.

  • Daytime05:00 to 17:30 46%
  • Evening17:30 to 19:30 46%
  • Night19:30 to 05:00 79%

The right-hand figure is the share of Secunda’s mapped areas sitting in the highest band at that hour.

  • Highest avoided by default on the strictest setting
  • Elevated always costed, avoided on the strictest setting
  • Caution costed but never avoided, since it is too widespread to route around
  • No penalty checked and carries no routing cost
View as table
Secunda: mapped areas by risk band, for each time of day
Time of dayHighestElevatedCautionNo penalty
Daytime2921103
Evening2921103
Night50643

Driving here

What matters on Secunda’s roads

  • Shift work puts a lot of the driving here in the evening and night bands, which is when the ratings look least like the daytime picture.
  • The N17 is the spine of this map and is rated along its whole length.
  • We have kept coverage tight around the town and its approach roads instead of spreading it thin across the wider district.

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

Common questions about Secunda

Why is Secunda on the map when much bigger cities are not?

Because of the N17 and the shift patterns around the petrochemical plants. A lot of ordinary driving happens there after dark, which is when this is most useful.

Does coverage extend to Evander and Trichardt?

The mapped area covers Secunda and the roads leading into it, including the way toward Evander. Trichardt sits just outside it.

Also mapped

Other metros

Johannesburg Gauteng 800 zones Cape Town Western Cape 909 zones Pretoria Gauteng 486 zones Ekurhuleni Gauteng 732 zones West Rand Gauteng 130 zones Stellenbosch Western Cape 32 zones Rustenburg North West 98 zones Pilanesberg North West 43 zones Mossel Bay Western Cape 58 zones Durban KwaZulu-Natal 791 zones Gqeberha Eastern Cape 254 zones

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