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Mpumalanga · 62 rated areas

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.

Rated ground in Secunda, with 1 reported hotspot. Tsamaya names roads, never neighbourhoods.

Areas rated high risk, by time of day

49

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

  • Daytime, 05:00 to 17:30 28
  • Evening, 17:30 to 19:30 28
  • Night, 19:30 to 05:00 49

Of the 62 rated areas in Secunda, 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

1 reported hotspot in Secunda

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 1

  • R29 & R547 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

    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.

  2. 02

    The N17 is the spine of this map and is rated along its whole length.

  3. 03

    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

Secunda, asked

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.

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

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