You have to press the wrong pedal. "Bang".40% of accidents are elderly.

[Anchor]
There is a constant 'pedal malfunction' accident that confuses the car accelerator pedal and the stop pedal.

Drivers insist on 'sudden acceleration', but most of them are concluded to be manipulated, and 40% of these accidents are caused by the elderly.

I'm reporter Lee Hyungwon.

[Reporter]
Suddenly, he speeds over the center line and crashes into an oncoming vehicle.

I thought I was pulling out, and I rushed into the underground parking lot,

I'm trying to park and push the car in front of me at the same speed.

All of them were accidents that mistook the accelerator pedal for the stop pedal, which was more frequent during parking or parking.

In particular, the drivers in the above cases were all in their 70s, and in fact, the proportion of the elderly in these 'pedal manipulation' accidents is overwhelming.

From 2019 to June this year, there are an average of 2,000 pedal malfunction accidents a year, with 40% of those aged 61 or older.

Those over 70 years old accounted for less than 6% of driver's license holders, but the proportion of accidents was well over 14%.

[Park Yo-han / Senior Researcher at Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance's Traffic Safety Culture Research Institute: The older the person, the slower the response, so even if the driving experience is quite high, the slower the response is....]

an accident at the city hall station that caused 14 casualties or
Like the Haeundae accident in Busan that killed two people bound for

It is urgent to come up with measures as it can lead to large casualties such as
.

In response, the institute emphasized the need for dissemination, saying that installing a device that detects and blocks pedal misoperation can reduce related accidents by more than 60%.

Currently, there is only one vehicle equipped with such a device in Korea, but Japan accounts for 90% of the new vehicles.

I'm Lee Hyungwon of YTN.

Reporter for shooting
: Kwon Seok-jae

Graphic:Ji Kyungyoon