With summer vacation underway, police are bracing for a spike in scooter accidents. In greater Taipei, the number of scooter accidents rises in June and peaks from July to September, as high school students hit the road. This summer, police plan to step up traffic law enforcement, in hopes of bringing down the accident rate by 10%.
In the greater Taipei area, there are more than 3.2 million registered scooters. Scooters are involved in nearly 85% of traffic injuries and deaths in Taipei, and some 80% in New Taipei.
Hsieh Ming-hong
Department of Transportation head
From June to the end of the year, the number of traffic accidents goes up steadily. There are a lot of high school students who use scooters before heading off to college and getting their driver’s license. This causes an increase in accidents, which we start to see in July.
In the last three years, scooter traffic accidents have surged in the summer months, rising in June and peaking in July and August. In response, traffic police in greater Taipei will strengthen law enforcement for three months, from July to September. The crackdown will target areas and times of day when violations are most likely to occur.
Lin Tai-yu
New Taipei traffic police corps
In the summer months of July to September, we will try to reduce the accident rate by 10% compared to last year.
Huang Chien-sheng
Taipei traffic police corps
We will target hotspots – places where motorists tend not to stop for pedestrians, such as Zhonghua Road Section Two. We’ll also target commercial districts like Ximending, Gongguan, and Shilin. Places where there are lots of pedestrians will see increased traffic enforcement.
Taipei and New Taipei are ramping up traffic law enforcement to make the streets safer. In related news, Taiwan added a hazard perception component to its scooter license test at the start of the month, in another initiative to reduce traffic fatalities.
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