Fatalities and accidents fall after city’s traffic violations crackdown
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THE citywide crackdown on traffic offenses has yielded positive results in the past eight months — with the number of traffic accidents and casualties dropping significantly, Shanghai Public Security Bureau said yesterday.
Accident numbers dropped 25.4 percent over the same period of last year, while deaths and injuries fell 13.6 and 41.6 percent, respectively.
“Traffic offenses are a major cause of bad traffic order, congestions and noise pollution from excessive horn blaring,” said Bai Shaokang, head of the bureau.
Bai said the campaign had paid off, and residents were learning to “queue up in lines.”
Meanwhile, police said they had sourced 26,000 parking slots for residents and most of them were located in schools, hospitals and other public institutions.
This provided drivers with alternatives to illegal parking on the streets.
Police said they would continue to encourage the public to report traffic violations.
Up till now, 35,000 pieces of video evidence have been uploaded by citizens to the traffic offense reporting platform at the official website of Shanghai traffic police, who yesterday launched an app called “Shanghai Jiaojing.” This enables users to take a 30-second video of an offense via a mobile phone and report it via the app.
Police said they would continue to wage their crackdown in all parts of the city and would especially address the most common offenses — illegal parking and lane changing, driving in the wrong lane and horn blaring abuse.
“We will always keep a high pressure on traffic offenses,” Bai said. “We are also staying in constant consultation with social partners such as bus and taxi companies for improved solutions to traffic order.”
City traffic police, about 7,000 strong, are now being beefed up with 4,200 “assistant police officers,” who carry out duties alongside police at 1,100 crossroads around the city, but the assistant officers have no authority to enforce traffic laws.
Bai revealed that the new local road and traffic management law, which will be “the toughest ever in Shanghai,” will be put to vote by the Shanghai People’s Congress by the end of this month.
Police have also vowed to crack down on dealers violating national standards on assembling and selling vehicles. Police will work in cooperation with market inspectors, business regulators and other government institutions.
In the past eight months, police have seized 4 million forged car plates and driving licenses.
Yu Lie, vice head of the bureau, said taxi companies welcomed the campaign against traffic offenses because their vehicle insurance policies were cheaper as a result.
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