Traffic diversion measures during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the Police Department urges the public to pay attention to safety
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- As the Dragon Boat Festival holiday is approaching, the Police Department has planned traffic diversion measures, including tightening controls on important scenic spots and roads, and reminds the public to pay attention to driving safety.
- In particular, pedestrians should obey signs when crossing the road, and drivers should give way to pedestrians.
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The police will strengthen traffic diversion at relevant scenic spots and important roads during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. (Photo by reporter Wang Guanren)
Tomorrow is the consecutive holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival. This holiday lasts for three days. The Police Department predicts that there will be a wave of people and cars all over Taiwan returning to their hometowns, traveling or participating in festivals. In order to maintain smooth traffic and driving safety, the Police Administration has instructed all police agencies to prepare in advance and conduct traffic consultations in advance for important Dragon Boat Festival event venues, tourist attractions, amusement parks, national highways, ramp surface roads and other easily congested sections or places where people and vehicles gather, and cooperate with the traffic authorities to properly plan traffic diversion measures and strengthen the handling of unexpected road conditions to ensure traffic order and public driving safety.
The Police Department stated that in order to disperse traffic jams on national highways during the consecutive holidays, the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport has planned to suspend toll collection on all national highways from 0:00 to 5:00 every day from June 19 to 21. The section of National Highway No. 3 "Hsinchu System to Yanchao System" adopts a single toll rate plus a 20% discount. During the holidays, you can listen to the police radio station, use the Ministry of Transportation 1968 service network or APP to learn about various traffic diversion control measures and real-time road conditions on the national highway to effectively avoid traffic jams and time periods.
According to road traffic accident data from the Ministry of Transport, the number of pedestrian deaths within 30 days of traffic accidents has been declining year by year in the past three years, with a total of 354 in 2014, 366 in 2013, and 380 in 2012. Analyzing the causes of traffic accidents, the main factors include the driver's "failure to give way to pedestrians in accordance with regulations" and the pedestrian's "failure to cross the road in accordance with the instructions of signs, markings, and signals."
The Police Department reminds drivers to slow down when passing through intersections, make sure to stop and give priority to pedestrians, and pay attention to the situation in front of the vehicle at all times. Do not use mobile phones or other distracting behaviors to affect driving safety. When other pedestrians are crossing the road, they should obey the instructions of traffic signals and markings, pay attention to vehicles coming from the left and right, and avoid lowering their heads to cross the road with their mobile phones, so as to jointly maintain road traffic safety.
The police will strengthen traffic diversion at relevant scenic spots and important roads during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. (Photo by reporter Wang Guanren)
