Traffic accident transition
Traffic accidents are decreasing?
First of all, we will confirm the trend of data on general traffic accidents from data. The graph below shows trends in the number of traffic accidents, the number of injured people, and the number of deceased persons in 1948 - 2017.
Based on "警察庁＞統計＞" 平成29年中の交通事故の発生状況 ""
1.Traffic accident occurrence count
Actually, the number of traffic accidents has decreased since 2004.In terms of long-term, it increased from 20,000 in 1948 to 720000 in 1969.It began to decline from 1969 years and it decreased to 460,000 in 1977.Then it turned to increase again and recorded the worst record of 952,720 cases in 2004.After that it decreased for 13 consecutive years, and the number of cases of 2017 years was 472,165 cases.
2.Number of injured people
As you can see from the graph, the number of injured people is increasingly decreasing in proportion to the number of accidents.As in the case of the number of accidents it turned downwards as the worst record of 1,183,617 people in 2004 was recorded, declining for 13 consecutive years.It is 58% 8447 in 2017 years and 49% of 2004 year.
3.Death toll
The number of deaths in traffic accidents has declined once since its peak in 1970.In response to the rapid development of automobiles at the time, traffic accidents that increased dramatically from road maintenance and the lack of awareness of people's traffic safety became a social problem, the Basic Act on Traffic Safety Measures was enacted in 1970, traffic safety measures It is due to the fact that it was advanced.Regarding the number of deceased people, the worst of 16,765 people in history recorded in 1965, it decreased until 1979 years.Although it will increase again afterwards, it started to decrease again from 1992, but although it slightly increases in 1999 years, it is decreasing in general.
Next let's check the occurrence of bicycle accidents.
