About start of winter tire wearing situation investigation on Expressway

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November 7, 2007
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office

NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City, Regional Head Office President: Mikio Kashima) We started a winter tire installation survey on Expressway to understand the winter tire installation status and request customers to install it early.

1 Status of winter tire installation on Expressway

Tohoku Regional Head Office in, Expressway in major interchanges (IC), has been carried out every year the mounting survey of winter tire in the early winter period, it began also survey from November 5 this year.

The results of this survey and the first snow days at the Japan Meteorological Agency's major stations are as follows.

The next survey is scheduled for November 12th.

Survey location Winter tire installation rate JMA observation data
This time survey
(November 5)
【reference】
Last year (November 5)
First snow day (normal)
Observation point
Tohoku Expressway Aomori IC 44% 34% November 7 (Aomori City)
Tohoku Expressway Towada IC 26% twenty four%  
Hachinohe Road Hachinohe IC 33% 18%  
Akita Expressway Akita Minami IC 14% 10% November 12 (Akita City)
Akita Michi Yokote IC 2% 2%  
Tohoku Expressway Morioka South IC 19% 4% November 8 (Morioka City)
Tohoku Expressway north Ezuriko IC 14% 0%  
Tohoku Expressway Furukawa IC 0% 6%  
Tohoku Expressway Sendai Miyagi IC 6% 7% November 22 (Sendai City)
Yamagata Expressway Yamagata Kita IC 2% 2% November 16 (Yamagata City)
Yamagata Expressway Tsuruoka IC 8% 18% November 17 (Sakata City)
Tohoku Expressway Fukushima Iizaka IC 6% 8% November 24 (Fukushima City)
Tohoku Expressway Koriyama IC 4% 6%  
Ban-Etsu Expressway Aizuwakamatsu IC 13% 8% November 17 (Aizuwakamatsu City)
Joban Expressway Iwaki Chuo IC 4% 3% December 13 (Onahama, Iwaki City)
  • Survey method: Visually inspect the tire type of the vehicle passing through the toll booth.

(One time: about 100 units or 30 to 60 minutes)

2 Request from NEXCO EAST Tohoku Branch

(1) If you are going to the north-east or north, wear winter tires!

In areas with high altitudes such as Expressway and Ban-Etsu Expressway in Kita-Tohoku, it will be snowing on the road shortly after the first snowfall every year, so please wear early winter tires. To do.

(2) Even if you wear winter tires, drive carefully on snowy roads!

Even if you have winter tires, you may get into an accident because you are not accustomed to the speed, steering wheel and brake operation according to the snowy road. Keep a sufficient distance between cars, reduce speed and try to drive safely.

Image image of winter tire installation rate and accident occurrence situation on snowy road surface in 6 prefectures of Tohoku