Half a year from childcare accidents Children call for safe driving Otsu November 8, 12:49
In Otsu City, eight days have passed since the car crashed into a row of nursery school children on a walk, two people died and 14 people were seriously injured. In Shiga Prefecture, where the site became, the children instructed drivers to drive safely by giving a curtain to inform them of the walk course at the intersection.
On May 8th, at an intersection in Otsu City, two children were killed and 14 were severely injured in a car crashing into a row of nursery school children waiting for traffic lights on the sidewalk during a walk. .
On the 8th, half a year after the accident, the sidewalks on the site were sparsely crowded with flowers that seemed to have been placed.
After the accident, protective fences were newly installed at two sidewalks facing the intersection after the accident, and white diagonal lines called “Zebra Zone” were added to the roadway to take measures to alert the car.
On the other hand, in Nagahama City, on the morning of the 8th, a police officer and a kindergarten affixed a curtain with a word and a picture saying “Run slowly” at the intersection where there are many accidents in the walking course. The kindergarten children were calling on the car to come and go, "Driver, please run slowly".
Junko Uezaki, director of the city's Nango Kindergarten, said, “I want to continue taking an important walk for children while keeping safety.”