Today Korea is trying to expand school zones and concentratively install traffic safety facilities to particularly protect child traffic safety, along with the enactment of more traffic regulations. Concurrently with this endeavor, homes and childcare...
Today Korea is trying to expand school zones and concentratively install traffic safety facilities to particularly protect child traffic safety, along with the enactment of more traffic regulations. Concurrently with this endeavor, homes and childcare centers need to reinforce their traffic safety education so that children can keep themselves from traffic accidents.
The total number of traffic accidents to children is currently on the decrease but sill shows a high percent, as compared with that of advanced countries. However, in particular, the ratio of traffic accidents of children and traffic accidents related to school buses are on the increase. The formal statistics of traffic accidents cannot be grasped precisely but the number of traffic accidents related to child transportation vehicles is considered to be more serious when making reference to the traffic accidents that happen to childcare centers and day-care centers that run their school vehicles, as shown in the questionnaire poll conducted for this study.
With this in view, this study put its principal objective on analysing the characteristics and factors of child traffic accidents, grasping the realities of traffic safety education through a questionnaire poll and the observance of the regulations relative to the revised special school bus protection by elucidating the realities of child transportation vehicles operation, analysing mooted points, devising safety measures for school buses, and then proposing effective ameliorations of traffic safety education to keep children from traffic accidents.
For that purpose, this study disclosed mooted points and suggested concrete issues to formulate safety measures, as follow s:First, insufficient observance of the standard of child seat belts and child protection seats. Second, the importance of a safety guide teacher's sharing a school bus. Third, the reinforcement of public relations and regulations of child school bus protection. Fourth, the dull ratios of reporting traffic accidents of child school buses. Fifth, insufficient in the child school bus safety system. And finally, the practice of traffic safety education, etc.
Results were revealed as a result of having carried out a questionnaire poll, as follows:
Mooted points of child transportation vehicles included the structure of the vehicles made for adults, seat belts and child protective equipments, the excess of passenger capacity, driving by part-time drivers and careless driving, yellow painting of car exterior, the description of being a child protective car, a safety guide teacher's sharing a school bus, the managerial function of cars of private ownership, a lack of systematic protective mechanisms of child transportation vehicles, and other problems viewed from the perspective of car operation, along with indifference of parents to child transportation vehicles.
For the purpose of setting the special child protective bus protection system designed and carried out from this purport, it is needed to enact such laws and regulations as can be actually enforced by taking advantage of the results of a questionnaire poll on child school buses, for public relations organizations to carry out positive activities, for regulating organizations to reinforce their regulations against violation, and concomitantly with this for the supervising and controlling organizations to perform their responsible management.