Daegu City, 'Children Protection Zone' Traffic Accident Rate 'Lowest Nationwide'

Last Year, 30 Cases Occurred, Lowest Rate Among the 7 Major Special and Metropolitan Cities

On June 29, the first day of the illegal parking and stopping resident reporting system in school zones, a no parking and stopping notice was installed near the main gate of an elementary school in Seoul. Photo by Moon Honam munonam@

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] Last year, among the total traffic accidents in the Daegu area (14,389 cases), traffic accidents involving children in child protection zones accounted for about 0.21% (30 cases), the lowest rate among the seven metropolitan cities and special cities.

On the 15th, Daegu City compared the total traffic accidents in metropolitan and special cities last year with traffic accidents in child protection zones, revealing that the rate of child traffic accidents occurring within Daegu's child protection zones was the lowest nationwide (average 0.3%).

The traffic accident rate per protection zone (site) (national average 5.1%) was also found to be among the lowest at 3.8%, along with Gwangju (3.3%). Notably, no child fatalities have occurred within protection zones in the past five years (2016?2020 to date).

This is largely attributed to Daegu City's investment of 21.1 billion KRW over the past five years to improve safety facilities within child protection zones, including red pavement markings, raised crosswalks, safety fences, speed enforcement cameras, and signal installations.

Daegu City has continuously implemented various safety measures to ensure child protection zone safety, such as strengthening signals and traffic systems (speed limit 30 km/h), expanding and enforcing illegal parking prevention facilities to combat chronic safety-neglecting illegal practices, enhancing traffic safety guidance activities during school commuting hours, and providing child safety education and promotion at places like Children’s Traffic Land and Palgongsan Theme Park.

To further strengthen child safety, Daegu City plans to completely remove roadside parking lots at elementary school main entrances within this year and install 370 speed enforcement cameras and 92 signal devices in child protection zones by 2022 as part of measures following the so-called Min-sik Act enforcement.

Yoon Jeong-hee, Director of Daegu City’s Transportation Bureau, pledged, "Since the management of child protection zones is at the highest national level, we will do our best to strengthen management so that areas outside protection zones also reach the highest national standards."

Meanwhile, last year, 775 child traffic accidents occurred in the Daegu area. The number of injured was 964, somewhat higher than the metropolitan and special cities’ average child traffic accident injury rate (4.4%) at 5.4%. No child traffic fatalities have occurred since 2018.

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