"Police agency data show that the mortality rate among pedestrians is less than 1% in accidents involving vehicles traveling at or below 30km/h, with the rate rising to 2.7% at speeds of 30-40km/h, and to 17.4% at 50-60km/h.
“We ask drivers to recognise that they need to take particular care on roads shared by vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists,” the police agency’s commissioner general, Yoshinobu Kusunoki, told reporters this week."
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