Looking at the number of casualties caused by traffic accidents while walking by age, the number of casualties of 7-year-old children is remarkably high.This tendency has not changed for 1994 years since 24, and has become a major issue in Japan's traffic situation.Kanazawa University College of Science and Technology, Associate Professor Shin Fujio and Kokumin Mutual Aid coop (National Federation of Workers Mutual Aid Life Cooperatives) are working to reduce traffic accidents for children "7-year-old traffic safety project" Start joint research at.
The Traffic Accident Comprehensive Analysis Center estimates that the reason for the high number of casualties for 7-year-old children is that the number of accidents while commuting to and from school increases.Up to kindergarten and nursery school, parents and other people involved in the kindergarten are always watching over, but as soon as they enter elementary school, there are more opportunities for children to act alone, such as going to and from school or after school.For this reason, the risk of a traffic accident increases after entering elementary school.
Therefore, Kanazawa University and Kokumin Mutual Aid coop pay attention to the fact that the main factor of the accident encounter rate of 7-year-old children is "jumping out".At Kanazawa University, researchers from the Department of Global Social Infrastructure, Science and Technology, the Faculty of Environmental Design, and the Graduate School of Natural Sciences will conduct a demonstration experiment in collaboration with the Kanazawa University School of Humanities and Social Sciences Kindergarten. carried out.
As a result of investigating the behavior of older male and female kindergarten children at intersections using an eye mark recorder, it was found that the current position and notation of the "Tomare" sign is insufficient to alert children.In addition, in a hearing survey with the principal of the kindergarten, we received the answer that "Early childhood education specialists should teach about traffic safety before becoming an elementary school student."
From these results, it was shown that it is necessary to prevent accidents from popping out with signs that are easy to convey to kindergarten children and lower grades of elementary school, and at the same time, traffic safety education by early childhood education specialists is necessary before entering elementary school.Kanazawa University and Kokumin Mutual Aid coop will take this experiment as an opportunity to further research new measures for improving traffic safety.
