Dr Lee Randall is an occupational therapist, bioethicist and road safety advocate. Her research into work conditions and road safety in the Johannesburg minibus taxi industry showed that minibus taxi drivers are akin to an indicator species, pointing to what she calls South Africa’s ‘crashogenic’ road traffic system. As a founding director of the Road Ethics Project nonprofit she fosters ethical literacy around road use and highlights the inequities ‘baked in’ to global mobility systems, which create in effect a road safety apartheid. In her view, an equity lens is imperative for reducing crashes and saving lives, levelling the playing fields between motorized and nonmotorized travellers, private vehicle users and popular transport users, and high-income versus low- and middle-income countries.
