Intensive Crackdown on Motorcycles Ignoring Signals and Speeding on Sidewalks

Ministry of Land, Police Agency, and 17 Cities and Provinces Jointly Conduct 'Illegal Vehicle Crackdown' for One Month Starting from the 8th

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The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 5th that, in collaboration with the National Police Agency, 17 metropolitan and provincial governments, and the Korea Transportation Safety Authority, it will conduct a month-long joint crackdown on illegal activities involving motorcycles and other vehicles starting from the 8th.

During this intensive crackdown on illegal vehicles, special focus will be placed on whether illegal vehicle tuning such as the installation of leaf springs on cargo truck beds has been carried out, and whether passenger vans used for transporting children meet safety standards.

Additionally, as a follow-up measure to the "Improvement Plan for the Management System of Two-Wheeled Vehicles" confirmed at the 132nd National Policy Issue Inspection and Coordination Meeting, continuous enforcement will be carried out against illegal operation of two-wheeled vehicles that threaten traffic safety.

For two-wheeled vehicles, the crackdown will focus on deliberate damage to license plates, failure to attach license plates, reckless driving, signal violations, illegal modifications (such as LED lights, mufflers), failure to report usage, riding on sidewalks, violations of signals and instructions, and failure to wear helmets.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport reported that through the joint crackdown on illegal vehicles conducted in June and July, a total of 128,000 illegal vehicle cases were detected, and actions such as prosecutions, fines, and license plate seizures were completed.

The illegal activities were most frequent in the following order: license plate seizures due to violations of vehicle-related laws (53,000 cases), illegal tuning and safety standard violations (37,000 cases), unreported illegal operation of two-wheeled vehicles (20,000 cases), crackdown on abandoned vehicles (14,000 cases), unregistered vehicles (3,000 cases), and illegally registered vehicles (1,400 cases).

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of Environment will also conduct special inspections targeting approximately 1,750 designated maintenance businesses nationwide from the 22nd of this month to the 10th of next month.

This inspection aims to correct improper work practices and customs such as pass-oriented inspections at private inspection centers and overlooking illegal vehicles.

Earlier special inspections in the first half of the year revealed 11 cases of omitted emission test items, the highest number, followed by 10 cases of using defective equipment, 10 cases of insufficient recording of inspection results, 3 cases of facilities and equipment not meeting standards, and one case each of machine operation/modification and inspection sheet manipulation.

A Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport official stated, "We will continue to conduct strong crackdowns on illegal vehicles in cooperation with related agencies and strengthen management of private inspection centers to eradicate fraudulent inspections."

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