"Takeout guy caused a car accident while riding a motorcycle" "Takeout guy ran a red light and caused a car accident"… Recently, news of takeout delivery workers causing casualties due to non-compliance with road traffic safety laws has appeared frequently in major newspapers.
With the rise of online ordering services, the number of takeaway delivery vehicles has increased rapidly. Due to the more mobile and flexible two-wheelers, more and more motorcycles and electric bicycles have joined the takeaway delivery team. However, some delivery personnel have weak traffic safety awareness, and it is common to pass through at will, run red lights without authorization, and drive in reverse, which poses a huge hidden danger to traffic safety, and the traffic law enforcement situation is becoming more and more severe.
In June this year, the Chongqing Traffic Patrol Corps held the prelude to the rectification of the two-wheeler special project. However, with the deepening of the rectification action, the problem emerged: the frequent occurrence of two-wheeler traffic violations has a long history, and the relevant mechanisms are not sound enough.
Takeaway two-wheelers frequently cause trouble, causing public dissatisfaction
You can always see such people around you. They wear helmets and uniforms, shuttle through the streets, or ride motorcycles, or drive battery cars, and there is always a square incubator attached to the logo of the big takeaway company behind the car. This group that comes and goes is the takeaway brother, and racing against time is their livelihood. They help everyone realize the ordinary ideal of enjoying delicious food without leaving home, and also support a takeaway market with an annual transaction volume of over 200 billion yuan.
However, we are increasingly uneasy, some takeaway cars like road hazards, wanton illegal traffic, constantly creating a variety of traffic accidents. On March 4 this year, in Chongqing Yubei District two road streets, a takeaway website delivery staff Wang to save time fast, retrograde will cross the road Li hit, resulting in Li metatarsal fracture, Wang also bear 14,000 yuan missed work, care and other costs.
In recent days, Chongqing police carried out a special project rectification operation at the scene, a takeaway brother driving a red unlicensed two-wheeled motorcycle in a hurry, in the traffic kept changing lanes, and eventually hit a taxi, he was not only slightly injured, while being scored, fined and compensated for losses.
In recent years, road traffic accidents have occurred frequently, among which two-wheelers, especially take-away two-wheelers, have caused more and more traffic accidents. Unlicensed driving, retrograde driving, running red lights, and drunk driving are the main causes of traffic accidents.
The reporter learned from the Chongqing Traffic Patrol Corps that as of April 20 this year, the number of motor vehicles in Chongqing was 5.2901 million, 1.8312 million of which were motorcycles, accounting for 34.62% of the total number of motor vehicles in the city. Last year, two-wheeler traffic accidents accounted for 40% of the total in Chongqing, of which electric two-wheelers accounted for half.
Not only that, the phenomenon of two-wheeler hit-and-run accidents has emerged one after another all over the country. The Nanjing police in Jiangsu Province bluntly stated that the delivery brother has become a high-risk group of electric bicycle escape accidents. On May 26 this year, a traffic accident occurred on Shengzhou Road, Qinhuai District, Nanjing City. A pedestrian was knocked down and fractured his patella. After investigation, the hit-and-run vehicle was an electric bicycle marked with a takeaway company. In the end, the delivery staff was fined 1,000 yuan and detained for 7 days.
The reporter found that since July, including Zhengzhou, Henan, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, Hongkou, Shanghai and other places, there have been many hit-and-run incidents of takeaway workers, and the rectification of takeaway two-wheelers has been urgent, which is also the common expectation of the public.
At the beginning of this year, the public mailbox of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau received a letter from the public about the rectification of takeaway two-wheelers. The letter said that in the main streets of Yangjiaping, Shapingba, Nan’an, Yuzhong and other commercial areas in Chongqing, around schools and residential areas, there are a large number of takeaway riders who have seriously violated traffic laws and regulations, causing major safety hazards. Therefore, it is recommended that the traffic control department strengthen the supervision of takeaway riders.
The Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau publicly replied that the situation it reflected had been received and attached great importance to it, and immediately instructed the Traffic Patrol Police Corps to verify and handle it. As a result, in June this year, Chongqing Traffic Patrol Police once again launched a special project to rectify two-wheelers.
Safety education is ongoing, but the effect is average
The rapid business expansion of enterprises such as takeaway express delivery, the high demand for employees, and the low industry threshold have led companies to have lower requirements for recruits when recruiting, and not much investment in Security Training. These factors lead to different levels of education, driving skills, civilized traffic literacy, and traffic safety awareness among the entire delivery staff.
In this regard, Chongqing Traffic Patrol Police carried out targeted deployment before this special project. The motorcycle of express delivery companies, takeaway service companies and other stationary catering and distribution units implemented the policy of "learning to promote management" and "three things to do". Drivers who violate traffic laws for the first time are mainly based on learning and education. Those who violate the same traffic laws for the second time or more will be severely punished.
In the special project operation, the police also introduced "five-fold security" measures for the takeaway and delivery service industries, including learning traffic safety before joining the job, regularly setting up special project Security Training, and purchasing traffic safety insurance for each takeaway delivery staff.
Recently, when the reporter interviewed the traffic patrol police on Longshan Avenue in Yubei District, he met Mr. Li, the Meituan takeaway delivery brother, who was being inspected. Mr. Li has been working in takeaway delivery for more than a year and receives an average of about 20 orders a day. When the police checked the driver’s license, Mr. Li very cooperatively parked the car on the side of the road and showed the driver’s license.
"The company regularly conducts traffic safety training, and I pay more attention myself, so I don’t drive illegally," Mr. Li said.
When the reporter followed the police of Longshan Traffic Patrol Brigade to conduct a road traffic safety publicity interview at a takeaway franchise store in Yubei District, Du, the head of the franchise store, told the reporter that the training of employees’ traffic safety awareness is conducted once every half a month at the main store, while the branch is twice a week. "We require all employees to have a driver’s license and a license plate for two-wheelers. If they do not obtain the corresponding legal documents, our company will not hire them, and vehicle insurance is also available." Du said.
However, in fact, not all food delivery companies and food delivery staff have portrayed, and there is still a long distance between education and practice. Under the overpass of the North-South Avenue in Jiulongpo District, the police set up Chongqing’s first motorcycle and electric vehicle traffic violation learning and persuasion point. After the crackdown began, from time to time, two-wheeler drivers who violated traffic came here to wear yellow vests to study.
Teng, 31, was the first driver to be persuaded to learn. At that time, he was driving a motorcycle to Vientiane City to deliver yogurt to the store. In order to hurry, he crossed the yellow line while driving to Zhigang Avenue and turned around. As a result, the police seized him. It didn’t take long for another seven or eight illegal drivers to come to the learning and persuasion point. According to the process, the driver watched the video of a typical case of a two-wheeler traffic accident. The police used the case to sound the safety alarm for them.
"In the process of law enforcement, we also encountered some other problems," Peng Lang, a police officer from the Longshan Brigade, told reporters. For example, after some delivery workers caused traffic accidents due to illegal driving, it was difficult to make compensation due to family economic conditions and no insurance, which brought certain difficulties to law enforcement and mediation work.
Wang Chao, a police officer from the Longshan Brigade, also talked to reporters about the deep-seated reasons for the difficulty in supervising takeaway two-wheelers. "There are standards for the definition of motor vehicles and non-motorized vehicles. In layman’s terms, electric bicycles with a maximum speed of more than 20km/h and a weight of more than 40kg are motor vehicles; while those with a maximum speed of less than 20km/h and a weight of less than 40kg are non-motorized vehicles." Wang Chao told reporters that in Chongqing, some cars with too small displacement, such as mopeds, are not included in the listed car, and some small two-wheelers have taken advantage of this loophole. Some mopeds are comparable in quality and speed to motorcycles, but they advertise themselves as mopeds, making it difficult for the police to make effective judgments and enforce the law.
Traffic violation records of takeaway companies can be disclosed
In response to the question of how to effectively supervise takeaway two-wheelers, Feng Zixuan, an associate professor at the School of Applied Law of Southwest University of Political Science and Law, believes that Chongqing is located in a mountainous city with many ramps, and the travel cost of two-wheelers is low, the efficiency is high, so there is a natural demand. However, there is currently no unified road standard for two-wheelers at the national level. The Road Traffic Safety Law authorizes local governments to supervise according to local actual conditions, so local governments can refine the types of two-wheelers and propose effective regulatory measures in light of local actual conditions.
While the traffic law enforcement department supervises, what are the regulatory responsibilities of the catering industry authorities for takeaway vehicles? Feng Zixuan believes that the principle of "statutory authority" requires that any administrative agency must have statutory authority to exercise administrative power. Traffic safety law enforcement departments have regulatory responsibility for the safety of delivery vehicles in the takeaway industry and can require the catering industry authorities to provide official assistance in traffic law enforcement.
At present, some cities have introduced relevant response measures. For example, Shanghai requires takeaway catering companies to implement full-staff training contracts, improve riders’ traffic law-abiding and safety awareness, and complete the signing commitment to accept orders; conduct a comprehensive review of takeaway vehicles, whether owned or outsourced, and replace vehicles that do not meet the licensing requirements to ensure that all vehicles are registered in accordance with regulations; establish a rider identification system to ensure that one person, one car, one certificate and one code; establish a rider traffic civilization score system, setting corresponding score values according to the severity and harm of riders’ traffic violations, and also serve as an important basis for traffic police road management and internal management assessment of enterprises; sort out rider information and provide it to traffic control departments.
Feng Zixuan believes that the traffic control department can start from four aspects to standardize the illegal behavior of two-wheelers in the field of takeaway: first, the traffic control department can cooperate with the relevant competent departments to carry out regular law enforcement inspection activities when necessary; second, take flexible and effective investigation and punishment methods for all kinds of takeaway distribution traffic violations, especially pay attention to the combination of education and punishment. You can consider setting up a "blacklist" system to disclose the bad traffic safety records of relevant takeaway companies to the public and form public pressure on them. Third, traffic safety education activities can be carried out specifically for takeaway companies, paying attention to various forms, such as lectures, case presentations, invitations to visit warning education bases, and inviting relevant company heads to observe law enforcement activities. Finally, we should further explore the possibility of developing traffic safety insurance for takeaway companies in conjunction with relevant insurance companies.
In addition, some experts also pointed out that due to the existing technology, it is difficult to effectively capture the illegal activities of takeaway vehicles with monitoring probes, and it is impossible for the police to achieve full coverage of streets and alleys. Therefore, a public reporting platform can be established to mobilize the masses to report illegal activities by means of shooting, identifying the driver’s company through the uniform style, and implementing shutdowns, centralized learning, and administrative penalties for takeaway enterprises with excessive illegal rates.
Drawing/Gao Yue
