South Africa can reduce the number of road fatalities if international road strategies can be applied on the country's roads.This was the message from Road Traffic Management Corporation Mpho Mokhantso‚ who was speaking at the a road user behaviour colloquium at the University of Pretoria on Monday afternoon."There are other countries who twenty-fifty years ago were exactly where we as South Africa are now in terms of a high number of road fatalities."There are things that they have done‚ that if we copy from them‚ we will be able to reduce the number of unnecessary deaths on our roads‚" said Mokhantso.He said as a participant of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020‚ the country had endorsed the global undertaking to save up to five million lives.The country had also pledged to contribute to the prevention of up to 50 million serious injuries by 2020‚ Mokhantso said.Challenges identified under the five pillars of the UN's guiding framework for actions to improve road safety‚ identified by Mokhantso‚ are: - Road safety management‚ - safer roads and mobility‚ - safer vehicles‚ - safer road users and - post-crash response.As part of the National Road Safety Strategy for South Africa for 2016-2030‚ Mokhantso said one of the overriding objectives of the strategy was to achieve a 50 percent reduction in the number of people killed and seriously injured in crashes by 2030.The strategy‚ a joint operation by the government‚ RTMC‚ SA National Roads Agency Limited‚ the Road Accident Fund‚ Metro police and SAPS‚ outlines the actions to be undertaken to improve safety on South Africa’s roads.Earlier‚ Mokhantso said: "More than 73% of the fatalities that we see on our roads occur as a result of human error. This means that these are situations which could have been preventable and avoided... In certain instances‚ you would find that this might be caused by the lack of awareness and education in terms of road usage."..