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indytrucks
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=5778&categoryCode=117
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Accident Rate of Pedestrians Tops Among OECD Countries
By Park Chung-a
Staff Reporter
Korean pedestrians' accident rates were the highest among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries, a local research institute said on Monday.
According to the 2007 OECD International Road Traffic and Accident Database announced by Green City Research Institute, 5.28 per 100,000 Korean pedestrians died in traffic accidents in 2005, placing the country in first place.
Korea also topped the category in 2004, with 6.0 pedestrians per 100,000.
As for the number of deaths in traffic accidents per 10,000 cars, Korea took second place with 3.45 people, following Hungary with 3.79.
Considering that the OECD member countries' average number of pedestrians' death in traffic accidents marked 1.58 per 100,000 and the number of accidental deaths per 10,000 cars marked 1.68, South Korea has still a long way to go to become an advanced country in terms of traffic safety.
``These tragic accidents have highlighted the dangers pedestrians face on a daily basis and the need to be alert and always cross at signalized intersections. The government's more active and specific measures are required since pedestrians' traffic safety is vital regarding people's welfare,'' said Lim Sam-jin, a professor at Hanyang University and official at the Green City Research Institute.
``In Europe, pedestrians are guaranteed priority rights in streets near residential areas. Also, car speed limits in such areas should be lowered to 20 to 30 kilometers per hour. Our government should launch a project for traffic calming, which is aimed at lowering car speed limits and car circulation near residential areas.''
Indeed, the government showed the worst result in the sector of pedestrians' traffic accidents regarding its five-year plan to improve traffic safety from 2002 to 2006.
The nation saw 2,457 deaths of pedestrians in 2005, about twice the government's original estimate of 1,274.
As for the number of traffic deaths of those over 65 years of age per 100,000, South Korea topped OECD member countries with 38.8 in 2005. As for the corresponding number of children aged under 14, South Korea took fourth place with 3.1 in the same year.
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:17 am Post subject: |
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Something needs to be done to make cars stop at crosswalks in this country. Every morning I see piles of kids waiting to cross the street and 95% of cars don't even see them. The thing that gets me is whenever I talk to Koreans about it they're aware of it, some of them even know it's the law, but still no one stops at the crosswalks!
I say put some cops in plainclothes and have them just walk around the cities crossing the streets, taking license plate numbers and fining until people learn.
Of course you'd need some honest, willing to do their job cops... |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:48 am Post subject: |
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| I say put some cops in plainclothes and have them just walk around the cities crossing the streets, taking license plate numbers and fining until people learn. |
About 10 years ago there was a campaign in Daejon to accomplish just this. Only it wasn't the cops. Unemployed civilians took their cameras to notorious intersections and took pictures of cars that didn't stop before the crosswalk and turned the pictures in for a reward. It was so lucrative that some people were doing it as their main source of family income.
If I remember rightly, the campaign was stopped when rival photographers started getting in fist fights over who had rightful claim to the 'best' intersections. |
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Underwaterbob
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:54 am Post subject: |
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| Thus the need for honest, willing to do their jobs cops/concerned citizens. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Every morning I see piles of kids waiting to cross the street and 95% of cars don't even see them. |
Of course they see them. They don't care.
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| I say put some cops in plainclothes and have them just walk around the cities crossing the streets, taking license plate numbers and fining until people learn. |
No need for all that. Just reward the dreaded "carparazzi" for capturing it on film as the gov't used to do with speeders and red light runners. Or use traffic cameras to snap a picture of the car as it goes through the crosswalk. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| For some reason(s) some S.Koreans become indomitable, powermad, bullying, mischevious SUPER shit for brains behind the wheel. An element of a communal culture gone sociopathic for a spell, given a car. Why, why WHY??!!! |
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WoBW
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:50 am Post subject: |
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Why is it that they are so impatient at crosswalks, but they take 20 minutes to park a car, moving about 6 inches left or right with each forward or backward move? Don't they know that you need to actually turn the steering wheel to move the car left or right?
And why can't they make a simple turn into a side street without having to back up - slowly - about four times because they didn't turn the wheel enough in the first place?
Do they think that their car will explode if they turn to full lock left or right?
What's going on there? |
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Tarkaan
Joined: 09 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Something needs to be done to make cars stop at crosswalks in this country. Every morning I see piles of kids waiting to cross the street and 95% of cars don't even see them. |
Which is why when a kid crosses the street you see them put their hand in the air. It's so the people driving can see them and they stop. You see soldiers doing it from time to time, one of them will have their hand up when they cross. Monkey see. I do it when I'm out of town. |
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saw6436
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon, ROK
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| But lest not forget the idiot pedestrians that treat the road as their personal strolling path. As a driver I have seen "hundreds" of pedestrians that probably deserve to get hit by a car for their stupidity. |
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aldershot
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| simple math: awareness + lack thereof |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| What countries are exactly the members of the OECD? When did Korea become a member? It seems like Hungary and Korea compete for the suicide rate and the killing of pedestrians. As far as cops doing anything, that will take a long, long, long time, son. Lee Myung Bak might try to get them to partially do their job. The police force should no longer take people who are being cops as part of the military service, and they should raise the salaries of cops and make them feel a little power hungry. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| But lest not forget the idiot pedestrians that treat the road as their personal strolling path. As a driver I have seen "hundreds" of pedestrians that probably deserve to get hit by a car for their stupidity. |
You should've been here back in the 1970s. People used to sleep on the roads! Stone cold sober people, even. |
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Tarkaan
Joined: 09 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| What countries are exactly the members of the OECD? When did Korea become a member? It seems like Hungary and Korea compete for the suicide rate and the killing of pedestrians. As far as cops doing anything, that will take a long, long, long time, son. Lee Myung Bak might try to get them to partially do their job. The police force should no longer take people who are being cops as part of the military service, and they should raise the salaries of cops and make them feel a little power hungry. |
Do you know what the average cop makes in the U.S.? Squat compared to the shit they have to deal with. I don't envy them their jobs.
It's like I was telling this soldier the other day, "you do your job so I can do mine" so it's symbiotic. For some reason, they get the impression that FTs don't like them...
No cop or firefighter or soldier makes anywhere near what they should. The definition of their jobs are to serve as a buffer between us and anything bad that can happen to us. |
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