South Korea Implements New Right Turn Driving Rule to Better Protect Pedestrians
It is going to be interesting to see how well this new traffic law is going to be enforced:
A new road traffic law obligating drivers to stop when turning right at intersections to better protect pedestrians will be formally enforced, beginning this weekend, after a three-month grace period, the National Police Agency (NPA) said Thursday.
The NPA said it will begin to crack down on drivers caught violating the new right turn rules starting Saturday.
Under the new rules, drivers must make a full stop prior to a right turn not only when pedestrians are on the crosswalk but also when they are trying to get on it. Even if a right turn is permitted according to the traffic signal, vehicles must stop immediately if a pedestrian is spotted crossing the crosswalk.
At intersections where a right turn signal is installed, drivers cannot turn right on a red light and are allowed to turn right only when a green arrow signal is on.
Violators could face fines of up to 200,000 won (US$150) or detention for under 30 days. If violators pay certain penalties, however, the fines or detention will be exempted. The penalty is 70,000 won for a van, 60,000 won for a passenger car and 40,000 won for a two-wheeled vehicle.
Yonhap
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I see a huge increase in rear end accidents…
Flyingsword should know about rear end accidents. He’s the expert at it.
Some years ago, they had a crackdown on right turns for a month.
I didn’t know this.
There was a blind right turn. The taxi in front of me turned. Then the light changed and I turned. A cop had stopped the taxi.
WTF?
I asked around… ah… enforcement flavor of the month.
The next day, i stopped at the light and didn’t turn.
The taxi behind me:
Beep
Beep beep
Beep beep beep beep
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
In waited until the light changed and turned. Cops.
Pulled up to the next light with the taxi driver next to me. No eye contact.
A few weeks later, I was downtown at rush hour… turning… in front of the police station… with a cop standing in the middle of the intersection to blocks stragglers from getting stranded in the intersection when the light changed.
I dutifully stopped and avoided the right turn.
Cars behind me honked.
Finalky the cop scowled, blew his whistle, and pumped his arm to show he was annoyed at me blocking traffic.
The revenue grab was over. It was time to go back to normal productive life guided by nexessity.
And this, boys and girls, is why governemnt can go fùck itself.
Along the same lines, CH… When the money is gone:
FDA revokes monovalent COVID shot in USA
https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/fda-revokes-monovalent-covid-shot-details-on-the-vaccines-incentive-program-for-doctors/
Setnaffa, this is a sensible thing.
Why offer a monovalient vaccine that claims protection against a strain that has been extinct for 3 years when you can offer a bivalent vacvine that claims protection against a strain that has been extinct for three years and a strain that has been extinct for almost a year… at a higher price.
It is clear you just don’t understand the science.
And you certainly don’t understand the money.
Hahahha!
Flyingsword is an expert in “rear end accidents”. We never saw that coming.
Unlike Yoon, who is not an expert…
…because they aren’t accidents.
His rear end is like an Home Depot loading dock on PVC sewer pipe delivery day.
Yoon, are you being homophobic? You need to keep up, such comments and jokes are unacceptable these days.
Leftists pretend to embrace all manner of perversions.
That Austrian Corporal was really friends with the SA at Summer Camp and had them all killed after he took power.
Muslims throw alphabet people off rooftops. (Are helicopters too expensive?)
And all the while, they misunderestimate us with attacks on folks they assume we worship like they do and theow out the coursest homophobic and misogynistic slurs their masters can write for them.
Must suck to be that lame and predictable. And not be allowed to vary from the approved script.