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Traffic accidents have been decreasing during the recent several years.
The number of traffic accidents and the number of deaths and injuries by traffic
accidents in 1975 were below the 1974 level in every mode of traffics. (Table
2-6-1).
Traffic accidents are expected to become large as the speed and the size
of traffic facilities increase every year. And some regional characteristics
are observed in traffic accidents. For example, accidents tend to occur frequently
in urban districts and at railway crossings on land and in the three most crowded
areas (Tokyo Bay etc.) at sea.
The budget for safety measures had been increasing annually. It reached
about 130.8 billion yen in fiscal 1975. The Second Basic Traffic safety Plan
(fiscal 1976 - fiscal 1980) was prepared in March, 1976. In the field of road
traffics, the plan aims to decrease deaths by accidents to one half (8,400 deaths)
of the 1970 level (16,765 deaths). In the field of railway traffics, it aims
to promote the integrated measures for preventing accidents at crossings (fiscal
1976 - fiscal 1980). It aims to improve traffic environment, including navigation
routes and ports, in the field of marine traffics. It aims to develope air safety
facilities and control facilities and so on in the field of air traffics.
Especially measures to ease the overcrowded situation must be promoted to
secure traffic safety in the future. Not only safety measures after accidents
but also a long-term perspective is important in harmony with regional planning
of industrial sites etc. before execution of safety measures.
Safety measures do not increase income of transport enterprises directly
in most cases. So, they may be a large burden on transport enterprises under
the future stable economic growth. However, more and more enterprises' efforts
are hoped for.
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