Reopening school Be aware of car accidents at distributed school 16:48 May 31

In Tokyo, the school will be reopened in earnest from the 1st, but what is worrisome is a traffic accident on the school road. As the school is usually decentralized at different times, and the traffic safety education for new children is not sufficiently conducted, the Metropolitan Police Department is strengthening measures such as calling attention and enforcement.

In Tokyo, the school will restart in earnest from the 1st day while trying to prevent infection with the new coronavirus, but it is expected that the number of cars will increase as economic activity resumes, and there is concern about traffic accidents on school roads It has been.

In addition, because the children are usually walking on different routes during different times during decentralized school attendance, and traffic safety education for unfamiliar new children has not yet been sufficiently conducted, the Metropolitan Police Department is strengthening measures such as calling attention and enforcement. I will.

Among these, in order to call attention to children, since we cannot open the traffic safety class that we do every year, we publish a video that we made urgently on the Internet and introduce precautions when crossing a pedestrian crossing.

Until this month in Tokyo, a traffic accident in which a child has died for four consecutive months has occurred, but in all cases, the traffic rules were obeyed, such as crossing the green light, but it was involved in the accident.

The Metropolitan Police Department wants to strengthen the enforcement of drivers and to encourage children to take actions that exceed traffic rules, such as checking if a car will come even when they cross a green light.

Teachers are also assigned to school

The school will take measures to prevent traffic infection while resuming, and will take measures for traffic safety.

At Shibamata Elementary School in Katsushika-ku, there is a dedicated room for disinfectants placed in each classroom and a room for isolating heated children, and in the corridor in front of the toilet, children have to wait long enough to wait. Tape is also attached.

In this elementary school, from 1st to 1st week, students will be distributed to school in 3 groups depending on the grade.

Teachers and other teachers are supposed to stand by on the way to school and give guidance to school attendance so that children will not be affected by an accident. On the 29th, the teacher in charge and the principal confirmed the location and precautions.

This means not only intersections without traffic lights and places with a lot of traffic, but also places where there are many first-year students who have had few opportunities to go to school, so that they will give priority to watching and teaching.

Tohei Kirama, the principal of Shibamata Elementary School, said, “It is difficult for school students to pay attention to traffic rules while they don't understand how first graders should come to school. I want to help them reach school safely. "

Metropolitan Police Department "Discuss traffic safety at home"

“It is very important to educate children about traffic safety at the beginning of a new life, but I feel a sense of danger that I cannot do it now. We want you to discuss traffic safety at home. "

On that basis, “If you go to a different school at a different time than usual, the flow of cars will be different from usual. The children want you to know that, and the driver is not in the normal time zone and the children are around the school. I want you to drive with the idea of ​​walking and playing around. "