One in 10 road deaths linked to jaywalking

AI핵심 요약

• ·Roughly one in 10 traffic deaths in South Korea last year involved pedestrians crossing roads outside of designated crosswalks, underscoring the continued risks of crossing away from marked intersections.
• ·According to the Traffic Accident Analysis System, operated by the Korea Road Traffic Authority, 234 people died in pedestrian accidents that occurred while crossing roads outside of crosswalks in 2025.
• ·This makes up nearly one-tenth of the 2,549 traffic fatalities recorded during the same period.
• ·This has remained a persistent factor in fatal road accidents.
• ·In 2020, 337 people died outside of crosswalks, accounting for 10.9 percent of all traffic deaths.