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A three-week city-wide campaign will be launched from tomorrow to educate pedestrians, in particular the aged, about road safety.
Police Regional Road Safety Teams will distribute publicity leaflets at about 78 locations in the territory to remind the public to comply with road-safety regulations.
Offenders will be verbally warned during the first week but stringent enforcement action will be taken in the following two weeks.
Common pedestrian offences include failing to comply with a light signal, crossing within 15 metres of a footbridge or a pedestrian subway instead of using such facilities, and climbing over a kerbside fence or through a central reservation onto a carriageway.
In the first five months of this year, 30 pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents, the same as the same period in 2005. Of those who died, 67% were over the age of 60. Out of the 5,889 traffic accidents in the first five months of this year, about 28% involved pedestrians, with 1,704 people injured.
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