Can more traffic officers on nightshift make a dent in the country's after-dark road fatality rate? The Road Traffic Management Corporation 2014-2015 annual report shows that more than 4,500 people died on South Africa's roads in that period.Transport MEC Willies Mchunu told the KwaZulu-Natal legislature that the recent road accident carnage in the province had occurred between 6pm and 6am and "necessitated an increased focus of law enforcement at nigh t".The MEC's spokesman, Kwanele Ncalane, said yesterday the department had already deployed more traffic officers to monitor accident hot spots at night."We have started more operations at night. For now, it is not an everyday thing but we want it to be."In Johannesburg, JMPD chief superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the accident rate definitely increased after dark over weekends."To address the problem the JMPD has roadblocks over the weekend, with an average of 250 people arrested for drunk driving at night at weekends."If we did not have these roadblocks, the accident rate would be a lot higher," Minnaar said.Forensic collision homicide reconstruction expert Stan Bezuidenhout revealed that many jurisdictions did not have night-duty officers."Speed enforcement has all but stopped at night because traffic officers risk being attacked or hijacked."..