<Anchor> It

is a time to pay attention to the safety of children going back and forth as school is delayed to Corona. We have prepared a sequence of checking the way to school for children over two days.

While analyzing the accident data from various angles, reporters Choi Jae-young, Bae Yeon-woon, and Young-gu Shim will tell you what the cause of the accident is and whether there are any problems with designating the school zone.

<Reporter Choi Jae-young> A

school zone in front of elementary school, a child suddenly runs out onto the road.

It was a very dizzy moment at the time. You may not see it on the screen right now, but there is a safety fence on this side and a placard hanging on it.

At the time, the driver said that he saw the child standing behind the banner and put his foot on the brake.

So, when the child suddenly jumped on the road, I was able to brake on time, and fortunately, there was no accident.

As you have just seen, the school zone is still young, so children are more likely to have accidents due to these unexpected and unexpected behaviors.

Traffic accidents in school zone children, data analyzed over the last 13 years.

The total number of traffic accidents for children is decreasing from 15,000 in 2007 to 11,000 last year.However, the school zone accident has not decreased significantly, and it is noteworthy that the traffic accident has increased again since last year.

<Reporter Bae Yeon-woon>

I analyzed it in more detail.

As spring and summer and outdoor activities increased, 43% of all accidents occurred from April to July.

The most numerous month was May.

In addition, accidents were concentrated between 2 and 4 pm, the elementary school dismissal time, and most of the deaths and injuries were the ages of 7, that is, the first grade of elementary school.

After all, the main keywords of the school zone traffic accident are summarized as spring and summer dismissal time and first grade in elementary school.

The cause of the accident was also analyzed.

Administratively, 34% of items were classified as'non-compliance with safe driving duty', which is mostly the case of accidents while driving to other places such as mobile phones or navigation.

<Reporter Shim Young-gu>

By the way, this school zone is usually located next to the school.

Although it is not mandatory, school zones can be set up in schools or nurseries with more than 100 students.

A school district in Nowon-gu, Seoul. The average daily population of 14 years or younger reaches 500 during the day, and there are several academies with 100 or more students, but this is not a school zone.

As of the end of last year, there were 32 schools around the country that were designated as child protection areas.

It is 4.7% of the schools with 100 or more students.

[Government representatives (many institutes are) and the avenue is very difficult to slow position and to think effectiveness is small (perhaps it was not specified)

kindergartener 100 people designated school zones is available across Nurseries, five years ago, Request for designation was rejected.

[Han Jin-hee/Kindergarten Director: I didn't have a budget (designated school zone) at the time. Since I'm going to do this year, I said that I need a (resident) consent.] In the

school zone, parking is completely prohibited and there is a speed limit, so the merchants around it are reluctant.Despite being designated as a school zone, 18% or 3,000 nationwide are missing from the school zone.

Over the past 13 years, 4% of all traffic accidents in children have occurred in the school zone and the rest have occurred outside the school zone.

<Reporter Bae Yeon-woon> Since the

designation of a protected area centered only on facilities, there are concerns about blind spots.

In 2019, SBS synthesized Seoul's living population and school zone accident data to identify the school zone blind spot for the first time among media outlets.

We looked at the areas where children's traffic accidents occurred last year from 8 am to 6 pm, with an average of over 100 children floating during the day.

There were 37 areas across Seoul, 15 of which were not designated as school zones.

Although there were many children's floating population and even children's traffic accidents, they were excluded from the school zone due to the lack of children's facilities such as schools and academies.

Considering factors affecting safety, such as traffic volume for children and accident data, it is necessary to supplement current school zone setting standards.

(Video coverage: Lee Byeong-joo, video editing: Park Jin-hun · Lee Seung-jin, CG: Hong Sung-yong, Lee Ye-jung, Choi Jae-young, VJ: Young-sam Jeong, screen provided by Han Moon-cheol TV)