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The Automobile Liability Insurance (mutual aid) system has been further
substantiated. Compensation levels were raised from 25 million to 30 million
yen from April 1, 1991 for fatalities and first degree handicaps resulting from
accidents. An all-out efforts is being made to have people join insurance schemes.
A campaign was carried out to reduce the number of uninsured (non-mutual aid)
motorbikes, and aid is also offered through government guarantees, to accident
victims where accidents are caused by uninsured cars and hit-and-run incidents.
At the Japan National Organization of Automobile Safety and the Injured
Party Welfare, an agency authorized by the Ministry of Transport, loans are
made for living expenses to children orphaned in road accidents. Other aspects
of care are also improving: nursing and care of people severely disabled in
road accidents is carried out at the Chiba and the Tohoku Medical Care Center
for Traffic Victims. (Construction of similar facilities in Okayama is presently
in the planning stage.)
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