CCTV News: The Qingming Festival is approaching, and the Ministry of Public Security issued a traffic safety reminder on March 31 to analyze and judge the road traffic safety situation during this year's Qingming Festival.
In early April, the temperature will warm up, spring seeds, and logistics transportation will be intertwined and superimposed. Especially during the peak period of memorial service, the road traffic environment of expressways, main passages entering and leaving the city, and main and secondary roads in the suburbs will be more complex, and the traffic safety risks will be high. From the perspective of travel methods, self-driving travel is still widely favored by people and is the main way for people to travel during the holidays. Among them, short-distance travel accounts for the highest proportion.
Because the Qingming Festival worship is generally concentrated in the early morning and morning hours, congestion is easily caused near the cemetery. In addition, the current logistics and freight transportation is busy, and the expressway passenger cars are free to pass during the Qingming Festival holiday, the traffic flow on the expressway will increase significantly, and the probability of slowing down some highway exits is high, and the risk of rear-end collisions and scratch accidents is increased.
The highway has a large flow rate, fast speed, and the driving environment is relatively monotonous, which can easily cause drivers to drive fatigue, distracted driving, and speeding. In addition, vehicles that have not maintained safe distances, some congested and slow-moving sections, and near the exits of highways have illegally changed lanes, and illegally occupied emergency lanes.
At the same time, around the Qingming Festival, rural areas entered the busy period of spring sowing and spring planting. The number of collective travel of migrant workers increased, and the risk of illegal overloading of passenger cars and vans and illegally carrying people in light trucks, tricycles and tractors was prominent. At the same time, ancestor worshipers who return home from long distances are prone to driving continuously, causing fatigue driving, and easily causing traffic accidents.
The Ministry of Public Security reminds that when traveling by car on your own during holidays, you should pay attention to local weather and road conditions in advance, plan your travel time and route reasonably, and try to travel at peak speeds. When taking a bus during the holiday, do not take "black cars" outside the station to solicit passengers and buy groups, overloaded buses or non-passenger vehicles. You should wear seat belts when riding, and take the initiative to report illegal acts.
