The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 25th that it will conduct an indefinite 'Intensive Crackdown on Traffic Violations in School Zones' to enforce traffic regulations within school zones.
Police have launched a special crackdown on drunk driving in school zones around schools to mark the new semester. On the afternoon of the 12th of last month, police conducted a sobriety checkpoint near an elementary school in Sangam-dong, Seoul. Photo by Heo Younghan younghan@
The 'Intensive Crackdown on Traffic Violations in School Zones' is a special enforcement activity that randomly targets traffic violations such as drunk driving within school zones. Until now, it has been operated more than twice a week, including once a week led by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and at least once a week by individual police stations, and the intensive crackdown on drunk driving will be extended indefinitely.
During the first intensive crackdown conducted from the 4th to the 22nd of last month, 22 cases of drunk driving and 1,293 cases of traffic violations such as signal violations were caught. During this period, traffic accidents involving children in school zones decreased by 40% compared to the same period last year.
The police plan to maintain the enforcement stance not only against drunk driving but also against signal violations, failure to protect pedestrians, unregistered operation of children's school buses, and absence of accompanying guardians, which threaten children's safety, through the indefinite extension of the intensive crackdown, aiming to raise awareness and eradicate violations.
An official from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency urged, “Please comply with traffic regulations and drive with attention to children's safety when passing through school zones.”
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