This year's "Traffic Safety White Paper" has been finalized, and the number of serious accidents has decreased by about 30% due to the efforts of "Zone 30" that limits the speed limit of the designated area to 30 km. I'm going.
"Zone 30" is an area that limits the maximum speed of vehicles to 30 km in order to protect the safety of pedestrians on residential roads such as school roads, and police have been developing it nationwide for 11 years.
According to this "Traffic Safety White Paper", the number of maintenance points in "Zone 30" is increasing year by year, reaching 4186 at the end of last year.
Of these, a comparison of the number of fatal and serious injuries that occurred in the year before and the following year when "Zone 30" was constructed at 3864 locations that were constructed by the end of the first year of Reiwa showed a decrease of 29.4% overall. I understand.
Then, in light of the fact that there are a series of accidents nationwide where cars crash into the line of children going to and from school, such as the accident in which five elementary school students were killed or injured in Yachimata City, Chiba Prefecture in June last year, further development of "Zone 30" was carried out. , We will promote "Zone 30 Plus" that combines physical measures such as installing bumps on the road and "Zone 30", and strengthen measures for drunk driving.