Police will launch a two-week city-wide pedestrian road-safety campaign from October 7 to educate people, in particular senior citizens, about road safety.

In the first eight months of this year, 63 pedestrians died in traffic accidents, 20 people more than a year earlier. Sixty percent of the victims were aged over 60. About 26% of the 9,917 traffic accidents in the same period involved pedestrians, leaving 2,599 people injured.

During the first week of the campaign, Police regional road safety teams will distribute leaflets at black spots, to remind people of road-safety regulations. Offenders will be given verbal warnings in the first week while stringent enforcement will be taken in the second week.

Common pedestrian offences include failing to comply with a light signal, crossing within 15 metres of a footbridge or a pedestrian subway without using them, and climbing over a kerbside fence or through a central reservation onto a carriageway.