Yunlin Daoan won the first place in the group in the assessment. Five major accident-causing intersections in Douliu and Dounan were exposed

The intersection of Section 3 of Daxue Road (Provincial Line 3), Zhongshan Road and Xinchang Street in Douliu City saw 16 traffic accidents this year, making it the No. 1 intersection in Yunlin County that is prone to accidents. (Photo by reporter Huang Shuli)

The Yunlin County Traffic and Public Works Bureau and the Police Department integrated resources to analyze traffic accident hot spots, violation patterns and law enforcement data as a basis for road traffic safety and engineering improvements, effectively reducing the number of traffic accidents. Among them, the number of traffic accident deaths within 30 days in 2025 will be 24 fewer than in 2023. In this year's "114 Years of Road Traffic Safety Assessment" conducted by the Ministry of Transport, it won the first place in the second group of the Road Traffic Safety Assessment Excellence Award, and won the second place in the second group in both the traffic engineering and comprehensive management examination categories.

Yunlin County is a large agricultural county with a large elderly population. Many elderly people find it troublesome to ride motorcycles without wearing helmets. In addition, the straight industrial roads are fast and have a high proportion of accidents and serious casualties. Yunlin County Magistrate Zhang Lishan said that road traffic safety is an important policy goal of the county government. In recent years, from road engineering improvement, law enforcement to education and promotion, cross-bureau and multi-pronged efforts have been made to improve road safety and reduce accidents.

Wang Lingyao, Director of Traffic and Works of Yunlin County, pointed out that the "Road Safety and Traffic Engineering Section" was established for the road safety and Traffic Works Bureau, with the Traffic Works Bureau and the Police Department serving as executive secretaries to support each other through an institutionalized coordination mechanism. Through the police station's traffic accident hotspots, violation patterns and law enforcement Data analysis, as an important basis for traffic engineering improvement, accurately improves road environment, signs, markings and intersection facilities, achieving a cooperation model of "engineering improvement and traffic law enforcement complementing each other", making road safety policies more complete from problem identification, cause analysis to improvement implementation.

Wang Lingyao said that in the future, based on the analysis of traffic accident data, we will promote improvements in key projects such as accident-prone intersections, pedestrian traffic environment, traffic safety for the elderly, and traffic engineering facilities, so that villagers can walk safer and more securely.

According to statistics from the Transportation Bureau, from January to the end of October this year, the top five most common intersections for A1 to A3 traffic accidents in Yunlin County were the intersection of Section 3 of Daxue Road (Line 3), Zhongshan Road and Xinchang Street in Douliu City, with a total of 16 cases; the second place was the intersection of Section 3 of Yanping Road (Line 1), Guanghua Road (Line 1D) and Flood Control Road in Dounan Town, with a total of 14 cases.

The intersection of Xiping Road (Province 1D Line) and Luoyang Road in Douliu City, the third place, and the intersection of Section 2 of Daxue Road (Province Line 3) and Zhennan Road, No. 4, both had 12 cases; the fifth place, the intersection of Xiping Road (Province 1D Line), Shanghai Road and Shanghai West Road in Douliu City, had a total of 11 cases.