Gyeongnam Police Agency 'Best One-Team' Dramatically Reduces Traffic Accidents

Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency. / Photo by Se-ryeong Lee ryeong@

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] Traffic safety-related agencies across Gyeongnam Province, which had been working independently, are coming together as one.

On the 11th, the Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency announced that it will form and operate a ‘Best one-team’ centered on the 2023 traffic accident control tower agencies by subject.

The provincial police agency stated that traffic safety policies had been implemented separately by each agency, resulting in some inefficiencies in terms of manpower, budget, and effectiveness.

They explained that the ‘Best one-team’ was formed to connect the dispersed administrative forces into one and contribute to creating a safe traffic culture and preventing traffic accidents.

‘Best one-team’.
[Photo by Gyeongnam Police Agency]

According to the provincial police agency, Best one-team is a combination of ‘Be linked’, ‘everything’, ‘Safety’, and ‘Traffic’.

It refers to a working-level consultative body aimed at linking the tasks of various agencies related to traffic safety.

The color of the word Best is the same as the Gyeongsangnam-do C.I., symbolizing the establishment of a comprehensive traffic safety network throughout Gyeongnam.

The provincial police agency said that from 2019 to 2021, traffic fatal accidents involving passenger cars in the province decreased by 12.6%, from 127.7 cases to 111 cases, but accidents involving other subjects mostly increased or showed little change.

Fatal accidents involving elderly subjects increased from 121 to 137 cases, elderly pedestrian accidents from 58 to 60 cases, commercial vehicle accidents decreased from 66.7 to 61 cases, student accidents increased from 7.3 to 9 cases, agricultural machinery accidents increased from 4.3 to 6 cases, and two-wheeled vehicle-related accidents such as motorcycles, bicycles, and PMs changed from 49.3 to 49 cases.

A provincial police agency official said, “To devise measures to reduce traffic accidents, we created the Best one-team, assigning responsibilities by accident subject and implementing cost-effective traffic safety policies through task linkage.”

▲ Elderly and pedestrians will be handled by the Autonomous Police Committee and the police ▲ Students by the Office of Education ▲ Agricultural machinery by Gyeongnam Province ▲ Commercial vehicles by the Korea Transportation Safety Authority and the Traffic Culture Training Institute ▲ Two-wheeled vehicles will be jointly addressed by all agencies.

Chief Kim Byung-su said, “Rather than discovering new policies, we will find tasks to link the theme of traffic safety to the existing projects of the respective agencies to build a more thorough traffic safety network,” adding, “Through the Best one-team, we will encourage residents to participate in the social atmosphere of traffic safety and take the lead in reducing traffic accident fatalities by 50%, a national agenda.”

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