The National Police Agency on Tuesday released road accident statistics for Golden Week that reveal Japan saw the fewest road accident deaths since 1970.
According to the agency, 86 road traffic deaths were reported during Golden Week (April 29-May 6). However, the agency added that, due in part to the tragic bus crash in Gunma, the number of expressway deaths was double that of last year, at 12.
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some14some
What was the traffic death toll in 1970 and total population then?
roughneck
It is due to the rain during the GW! Everyone was driving slow.
Goals0
These kind of records only began in 1970. The death toll wasn't lower before then.
Alex Einz
Cycled all GW and amazingly low traffic!
nath
Not when they fudged the math as you indicated they aren't Patrick!
And do you really believe the things you named caused so many deaths during GW?
What surprised me the most was the low number of highway deaths compared to others. But of course, the difference might be made up by those who were declared dead more than 24 hours after.
nisegaijin
86 huh? I guess they all died of boardom sitting in them traffic jam.
garomakaikishi
who cares? no previous data to compare with anyways
SenseNotSoCommon
@Nisegaijin, can you have some respect for the dead, please? Those 86 aren't numbers. They are people just like you tragically torn apart from their loved ones forever.
@Some14some, great point. How useful would a comparison of those fewer cars enjoying more space but with frighteningly little safety equipment (no seat belts, for example), be?
@Valued customer, worldwide statistics show that expressways, as they are known here, are highly controlled and considerably safer environments than ordinary city/suburban/rural road, hence the lower accident rates.
Traffic light and speed cameras, traffic calming and more proactive policing of the mobile phone users, manga readers and careless parents who let small children ride unrestrained would lower the fatality stats.