China News Service, January 28. According to the news from the website of the Ministry of Public Security on the 27th, during the Spring Festival holiday, the national public security traffic control departments focused on the central task of ensuring road traffic safety and smoothness, researched and planned in advance, carefully organized and deployed, strengthened road surface control, and widely publicized Guided by the guidance, the majority of traffic police and auxiliary police stick to their posts, fight tenaciously, fight continuously, and go all out to prevent accidents, ensure safety, and ensure smooth traffic, creating a good road traffic environment for the people to celebrate the Spring Festival.
During the Spring Festival (as of 18:00 on January 27), the national road traffic safety situation is generally stable. The number of major road traffic accidents with more than 3 deaths at a time has dropped by 33% compared with the same period last year during the Spring Festival holiday. No serious road traffic accidents have been reported. The main roads across the country are running in an orderly manner, and there is no long-term long-distance traffic congestion.
The Ministry of Public Security attaches great importance to the traffic security work during the Spring Festival travel season and the Spring Festival, carefully studies and judges the traffic safety situation, studies and formulates traffic security countermeasures, and holds several video conferences before the festival to effectively manage the traffic during the Spring Festival travel season and strictly prevent serious and extraordinarily serious road traffic accidents. ; During the festival, daily monitoring of the traffic flow of main roads, timely grasp of bad weather, traffic accidents, etc., and key scheduling through video and other methods.
During the Spring Festival, local public security and traffic control departments fully launched high-level duties, coordinating expressways, national and provincial highways, and major roads in rural and urban areas, and paying close attention to the hidden dangers of serious violations and accidents such as "three excesses and one fatigue", "two violations" in rural areas, drunk driving, etc. Carry out in-depth special actions such as intensive rectification of drunk driving, precise investigation of key hidden danger vehicles on highways, and large-scale persuasion in rural traffic safety, strictly control traffic order, strictly investigate key violations, and resolutely guard the line of defense against road safety risks.
During the Spring Festival holiday, the public security and traffic control departments across the country invested an average of 180,000 police officers and 60,000 police vehicles per day, investigated and dealt with 25,000 illegal and criminal acts of drunk driving, and 779,000 serious violations such as "three excesses and one fatigue".
In response to the frequent occurrence of snow, rain, fog and severe weather in some provinces during the Spring Festival, local public security and traffic control departments, together with meteorological, transportation, emergency management, tourism and other departments, quickly launched an emergency response mechanism, closely cooperated with departments, deepened regional linkage, and dispatched rescue vehicles and emergency supplies in advance. Placed on important road sections, take measures such as police cars leading the way, speed limit passage, intermittent release, etc. to ensure the safety and smoothness of road sections seriously affected by snowfall. Make every effort to ensure road traffic safety in bad weather.
The Spring Festival holiday is coming to an end. From today to around the Lantern Festival, the return traffic and passenger flow will continue to run at a high level.
According to the forecast of the Central Meteorological Observatory, there will still be rain and snowfall in some parts of my country during the second half of the Spring Festival travel.
The Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security reminds drivers to pay close attention to the weather conditions and road traffic conditions when traveling by self-driving vehicles, plan and arrange the itinerary reasonably, fasten the seat belts throughout the journey, and refrain from speeding and fatigue driving in order to hurry; in case of bad weather, Strictly abide by the "speed reduction, distance control, and bright tail". When passing through sharp curves and steep slopes, snow-covered and icy road sections, reduce the speed of the vehicle in advance, do not turn the direction in a hurry, and step on the brakes in a hurry to prevent the vehicle from slipping out of control and overturning; Legal and compliant passenger vehicles refuse to take overcrowded vehicles and "hacking"; they must strictly abide by traffic safety laws and regulations, consciously resist drunk driving, and jointly protect traffic safety.
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