In Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture, in line with the spring national traffic safety campaign, children from the Children's Garden called on drivers for traffic safety along with the popular local character Hikonyan.
In the spring national traffic safety campaign that started on the 6th, the Shiga Prefectural Police Headquarters is focusing on ensuring the safety of children and other pedestrians and pausing at pedestrian crossings without traffic lights.
On the 8th, near Hikone Castle, 41 children from a local children's garden wore the uniforms of police officers for children and called for traffic safety with the popular local character "Hikonyan".
The children were holding small handmade flags with the words "Please take your time" and were calling out to the driver, "Stop at the pedestrian crossing" alongside Hikonyan.
When the JAF = Japan Automobile Federation investigated the percentage of cars that paused when pedestrians tried to cross a pedestrian crossing without traffic lights last year, Shiga Prefecture was 20.7%, which was lower than the national average of 30.6%. ..
Hikone Police Station Tsunasuke Shikibe, Transportation Manager, said, "Since there are many children who are not accustomed to going to kindergarten or school at this time, the driver has plenty of space, and if he sees a pedestrian, he pauses at the pedestrian crossing for safe driving. I want you to try. "