MOIS to Inspect 93 School Zones with High Rates of Child Traffic Accidents

[Financial News]  Child traffic accidents in school zones rose from 526 in 2024 to 927 last year, data showed. The government will inspect 93 school zones with high accident rates and improve facilities by installing stop signs and pedestrian safety barriers.
The Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) said on the 13th that it had inspected traffic-safety conditions in 93 areas with frequent traffic accidents in school zones from June 29 to July 31, together with the Ministry of Education, the Korean National Police Agency, and the Korea Road Traffic Authority (KoROAD).
The number of inspection sites increased significantly from the previous year. There were 526 child traffic accidents in school zones in 2024, and 36 sites were subject to inspection. As the number of accidents rose to 927 in 2025, the number of inspection sites also expanded to 93.
The government plans to analyze the causes of the accidents and conditions at each site, then improve road conditions, traffic-safety facilities, and driver-safety measures. The measures include installing stop signs requiring vehicles to come to a temporary stop before crosswalks without traffic signals and reinforcing pedestrian safety barriers. The government will also improve road markings and start-and-end-point markings in school zones, install guidance signs and raised crosswalks, and strengthen enforcement against illegal parking and stopping. A raised crosswalk is a facility that elevates a crosswalk like a speed bump to encourage vehicles to slow down.
Park Hyeong-bae, head of the Safety Prevention Policy Office at MOIS, said, "We will carefully examine and improve risk factors at each site so that school zones can function as spaces that safely protect children in line with their original purpose." He added, "We will do our utmost, together with relevant agencies, to ensure that children can commute to and from school in a safe environment."

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