China News Service, April 18. According to Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily, many Hong Kong citizens went to the suburbs for recreation during the epidemic. From time to time, some people were accidentally injured or even died due to negligence.
The number of bicycle accidents involving serious injuries and deaths in Hong Kong in the first quarter of this year has dropped significantly compared with the same period last year. This month's road safety theme is "Bicycle Safety". Traffic police officers are cracking down on bicycle violations throughout Hong Kong, in order to ensure that the public can ride happily and safely .
The latest police statistics show that there were 498 bicycle accidents in the first quarter of this year, a 39% decrease from the 823 in the same period last year. The fatal car accident dropped from three to one, and the serious injury cases also dropped from 182 to 26. About 86 cases were recorded. There were 471 cases of minor injuries, down 26% from the 638 cases in the same period last year.
Superintendent Wong Bingbing of the Administration Division of the Traffic Headquarters of the Police Force said that due to the fact that the Traffic Headquarters has been promoting bicycle safety and active law enforcement since last year, and since the fifth wave of the epidemic broke out at the beginning of this year, fewer people went out to ride bicycles, so the number of bicycle accidents dropped. As for the accident, the main reasons were the loss of control of the vehicle and the carelessness or inattentiveness of the public.
Combining the data for the whole year of last year and the first quarter of this year, the New Territories South and New Territories North Regions had relatively high numbers of cyclist traffic accidents. Most of them occurred on cycle tracks, roads and footpaths, usually flat and straight.
Huang Bingbing said that during the four-day Easter holiday from last Friday, police officers will conduct law enforcement operations throughout Hong Kong, and various regional and police district units will also launch crackdowns on bicycle violations according to operational needs, hoping to strengthen the "cyclists". ” safety and compliance awareness.