headlamps, ride a bicycle together with another person, ignore traffic lights, and loiter. Additionally, the police are taking strict measures on those who dangerously and viciously violate the traffic law and cause real danger to vehicles and pedestrians, and those who continue to break the law, despite warnings, by utilizing traffic tickets which threaten arrest.

## Diagram 3-9 The Five Principles of Bicycle Safety

## Five Principles for Safe Bike Ride

1. Bicycle must, in principle, pass on road except sidewalk

2. Lefthand rides on road

3. Pedestrians have right of way on sidewalks and bicycles must be ridden slowly on the road side

4. Abide by safety rules

• Do not drive under influence. No ride double.

No ride side by side

• Lights up after dark

• Follow traffic lights on intersection, stop temporary before confirming safe to cross

5. Make sure children always wear helmets

Note 1: Based on the state of traffic accidents involving pedestrians and bicycles, local resident complaints and requests, 1,827 locations nationwide (as of May 1, 2008) have been specified as bicycle guidance/enlightenment priority areas/roads. The police are promoting guidance and enlightenment regarding bicycle use in these areas.

### 3. Traffic Safety Education and Traffic Safety Activities

## (1) Traffic Safety Education

## 1 ) Guidelines to Traffic Safety Education

The National Public Safety Commission (NPSC) has drawn up and made public the Traffic Safety Education Guidelines to ensure that local public entities and private entities can carry out effective and appropriate traffic safety education, and to establish a common standard for the traffic safety education carried out by the Prefectural Public Safety Commissions (PPSC). The police implement the guidelines that specify the basic preparedness required of those engaged in traffic safety education, as well as the contents and methods of systematic traffic safety education that are suited to the mental and physical development and traffic modes of each age group.

## 2 ) Traffic Safety Education in Business Establishments and Other Places

Business establishments using more than a specified number of vehicles are obliged, under the stipulations of the Road Traffic Act, to carry out traffic safety education in accordance with the Guidelines by appointing a safe driving supervisor. The police provide the necessary instruction such as lessons for safe driving supervisors in order to ensure that traffic safety education is implemented appropriately.

## (2) Traffic Safety Activities

The police are trying to uplift the national traffic safety awareness in cooperation with concerned organizations/groups and traffic volunteers (traffic safety campaign promotion committees, traffic counselors, etc.) in various ways.

## 1 ) National Traffic Safety Campaign

The police conduct National Traffic Safety Campaigns in spring and fall every year aiming for the thorough prevention of traffic accidents by widely spreading and implementing the idea of traffic safety and to encourage people to comply with traffic rules and uphold good standards in traffic manners. During campaign periods, national and local public entities and private entities work together to carry out large-scale, nationwide campaigns.