Airport Approach Drive
5 news reports in the 12 months to November 2026.
Keep doors locked and windows up in slow traffic, and stop only at the airport forecourt or a fuel station.
See it on the mapN2 Airport Route crime report
Is the N2 airport route safe?
Corridor report built from verified incident reports (news & community), not a SAPS precinct · Hospital Bend · Settlers Way · Jakes Gerwel · Borcherds Quarry · Airport Approach
12 months to 2 November 2026
News reports
In the 12 months to November 2026, 14 news reports of crime on the N2 airport route: 7 car crimes, 3 murders or suspicious deaths, 3 robberies and 1 assault.
There are no police statistics for a road corridor, so these are only the incidents that made the news, not a count of crime.
3 news reports of murders or suspicious deaths in that time: Jakes Gerwel Drive (December 2025), Airport Approach (January 2026) and Airport Approach (August 2026).
On this page, news reports are the only source: there are no police statistics for the N2 airport route.
Reported in the news
News reports
What made the news in the 12 months to November 2026. Journalists report only a small share of crime, so this is not a count.
Airport Approach
- Murder or suspicious death, Airport Approach IOL
- Murder or suspicious death, Airport Approach Daily Voice
- Assault, Airport Approach Smile 90.4FM
- Robbery, Airport Approach IOL
- Robbery, Airport Approach 2oceansvibe News
- Car crime, Airport Approach Cape Argus
- Car crime, Airport Approach news24.com
- Car crime, Airport Approach Cape Argus
- Car crime, Airport Approach IOL
Jakes Gerwel Drive
- Murder or suspicious death, Jakes Gerwel Drive capetownetc.com
Borcherds Quarry
- Robbery, Borcherds Quarry Daily Voice
N2
- Car crime, N2 Cape Town ETC
- Car crime, N2 Cape Town ETC
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- Car crime Smile 90.4FM
Hotspots
News reports
Places worth knowing about, from the same news reports.
Borcherds Quarry interchange
3 news reports in the 12 months to November 2026, 2 of them about robbery.
Pass through without stopping and keep to the right-hand lanes. Avoid pre-dawn runs where you can, and if you meet an obstacle in the road, report it to 107 rather than stopping to move it.
See it on the mapJakes Gerwel Drive interchange
2 news reports in the 12 months to November 2026.
Leave a full car length at the lights so you can pull away, and keep valuables out of sight rather than on the seat beside you.
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Emergency: police 10111, or 112 from a mobile.
Our analysis
A longer read on the numbers behind this report: the incidents set against the official counts and the rescue record.