Police Conduct Children's Traffic Safety Activities... "Focused Crackdown on Traffic Violations"

The National Police Agency announced on the 20th that it will conduct children's traffic safety activities from February 24 to April 18 this year.

Start and end points marked in school zones. National Police Agency

The comprehensive inspection of traffic safety facilities in school zones will target a total of 703,209 facilities, including traffic signals, safety signs, and road markings, within 16,308 school zones nationwide. Various traffic safety activities will also be carried out, such as guiding children's pedestrian safety during school commute hours and cracking down on vehicles violating regulations after school hours.

The police plan to enhance effectiveness by forming a public-private joint inspection team involving local governments, schools, and the Green Mothers' Association. In particular, they will focus on inspecting relatively recent implementations or facilities with low installation rates, such as ▲repairing and newly installing start and end point markings in school zones ▲securing and expanding children's boarding and alighting zones ▲expanding protective fences.

This safety activity is a measure considering that about 32% of pedestrian traffic accidents involving children in school zones occur during the early semester months of March to May.

Lee Ho-young, Acting Commissioner of the National Police Agency, said, “Amid the need for whole-of-government interest and efforts to strengthen school and child safety management, we will do our best to create safe school routes and enhance children's traffic safety as the new semester begins.”

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