On the morning of January 1, on Wucheng West Road outside Dongqing Jiayuan Community, Tianning District, Changzhou, an elderly man crossed the road and was hit by a speeding car, and is still under observation and treatment in the ICU. More than two months ago, an elderly man in his 60s crossed the road on this section of the road and died on the spot after being hit. Many residents of Dongqing Jiayuan reported to Modern Express that they were eager to set up traffic lights on Wucheng West Road at the entrance of the community to ensure that residents crossed the road safely.
Crossing the road has caused a number of traffic accidents
Dongqing Jiayuan's gate guard told reporters: "Dongqing Jiayuan took the house in September, and many residents who moved back began to renovate in October, and then there were more people in and out of the community, and the accident came." There have been several major accidents along this road, and small bumps are a regular occurrence!"
A security guard said he was most impressed by three accidents. One occurred in October last year, when a contractor in the renovation business was hit by a car while crossing the street and died on the spot. "This contractor is only 66 years old, and he is also the owner of the community, and he has taken several jobs in the community, but he didn't expect an accident, and the work he took was delayed. ”
"The traffic accident on the morning of New Year's Day (January 1 this year) was also caused by crossing the road. I was the first to run to the scene, and the old lady who was hit was bleeding badly from the head and was unconscious. The security guard said that the old lady lived alone in the community, and it was he who found the phone number of the old lady's daughter from the owner's address book and informed her daughter to rush back from out of town.
There was also a traffic accident in which a 12-year-old boy was injured. The boy was crossing the road on a bicycle and was hit by a car, but fortunately he was not injured and was discharged from the hospital after two or three days of observation.
"There are also small collisions between electric (self-propelled) cars and motor vehicles, collisions between electric (self-propelled) cars and electric (self-propriated) vehicles, etc., and there are quite a lot of such small accidents. There are also pedestrians crossing the road, scaring car drivers into slamming on the brakes. The security guard said that there are many traffic accidents, on the one hand, everyone is not aware of traffic safety, greedy for shortcuts, jaywalking, on the other hand, there are no traffic lights, and the speed of cars is fast. "I heard that the owners have also reported to the community that they hope to install a traffic light at the entrance of the community to facilitate the residents to travel. ”
Problem 1: There are many intersections and chaotic street crossings
The reporter noticed that Wucheng West Road at the entrance of Dongqing Jiayuan is east-west, connecting Qiyue Line and S232 Provincial Highway to the east, and going west to Changzhou City, with a large traffic flow, especially the freight vehicles in transit are very many, in addition to the traffic lights in the Dongqing Town section, there are many intersections such as Dongqing Jiayuan, Dongqing Yayuan, Songtang Village, etc. There are three open intersections on the road near Dongqing Jiayuan, namely the east side intersection of the zebra crossing, the intersection with the highway under construction, and the middle intersection more than 100 meters west of the community gate.
A few days ago, the traffic management department set up a fence at the middle intersection, and in principle, motorized vehicles, non-motorized vehicles and pedestrians need to cross the road from the east and west intersections. However, the reporter observed that motor vehicles are from the east side of the intersection after turning into the community, most of the electric bicycle riders will choose to cross the street from the west side of the intersection, and then go a few hundred meters in the opposite direction to enter the community. Pedestrians often cross the road through the central green belt next to the fence. Especially because this intermediate intersection is closest to the gate of the community and the up-and-down bus stop, residents will mostly choose this "shortcut". Within 10 minutes of the reporter's observation, three people crossed the road across the central isolation green belt, and more than a dozen electric vehicle drivers drove in the opposite direction. One of the middle-aged women was crossing the road when she encountered a large stream of traffic, but she still went in the wrong direction along the isolated green belt, seizing the gap between the traffic and crossing the road.
Problem 2: The traffic flow is large and the speed is fast
Many residents reported to reporters that the speed of motor vehicles on Wucheng West Road was too fast, and they were always afraid to cross the road.
At the intersection on the east side of Dongqing Jiayuan, two old men crossed the road from the zebra crossing, walked halfway, saw a traffic coming quickly, the old man stepped up his pace, trotted just through the road, and a stream of traffic came quickly.
Ms. Pan's parents are in their 60s, and they are being renovated after getting the house, and the old man has come back many times to check the progress of the renovation, and she has to tell her parents to cross the road and walk on the zebra crossing, and to observe the car. "I heard that two elderly people in the community were hit when they crossed the road, and I didn't dare to let my parents come back by themselves, so I drove them by myself. Ms. Pan said that when she drove a U-turn at the intersection on the east side, she had to wait and observe again and again, for fear of being touched by a speeding car.
The reporter drove along Wucheng West Road from west to east, and the speed limit on the road from Dongqingji Town to S232 Provincial Highway was 70 km/h, and from S232 Provincial Highway to the west, the speed limit display at the beginning was 80 km/h, and it began to become 70 km/h at Zhoutang Bridge, and dropped to 60 km/h after entering the Dongqingji Town section after passing through Dongqingjiayuan Community. Compared with the speed of motor vehicles in the east, the speed of vehicles in the west direction is obviously faster, especially from the Garden Bridge to the west, there are no signal lights along the way, there are no speed limits and other facilities, and many motor vehicles are speeding more than 70 km/h.
Department response: The traffic environment in the Dongqing area will be adjusted and improved
For the needs of residents who installed traffic lights and adjusted traffic facilities at the entrance of Dongqing Jiayuan, the Modern Express reporter consulted with the Changzhou Traffic Police Detachment. According to the relevant person in charge of the traffic police detachment, the traffic police department has been working on the rectification of potential safety hazards in the Dongqing area.
According to the person in charge, Wucheng West Road is located in a rural area, the traffic situation is complicated, many surrounding sections are still under construction, and some transportation facilities are not perfect. The traffic police department is already conducting a large-scale investigation of traffic hazards in the area. The next step will be to sort out the traffic facilities and optimize the traffic organization, supplement the traffic safety facilities, improve the traffic science and technology facilities, warn vehicles to slow down, etc., improve the traffic efficiency and travel safety of the crossing, and minimize the risk of safety accidents. "The squadron in the jurisdiction will increase the persuasion of rural traffic violations, and will also carry out traffic safety publicity activities in communities in the near future to guide citizens to develop good Xi of obeying traffic rules." ”
The relevant person in charge of Qinglong Street also said that the current situation of traffic settings on Wucheng West Road is a problem left over from history, which has been exposed after the residents of Dongqing Jiayuan have moved back and moved in one after another. In this regard, the street has begun to make adjustments, such as re-setting traffic lights, carrying out the "Xueliang Project" improvement project, and jointly implementing long-term governance measures with the traffic management department to ensure the safe travel of the public.
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