Macau recorded 7,666 traffic accidents in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 18.3 percent, resulting in two deaths and 2,721 injured people, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced in a statement yesterday.
In June, the number of traffic accidents dropped 7.0 percent year-on-year to 1,257, with 390 people injured, the statement said.
The number of licensed motor vehicles stood at 250,633 at the end of June, up by 0.4 percent year-on-year, with light automobiles (117,103) rising by 2.3 percent.
New registration of motor vehicles in the first half of the year went down by 0.9 percent year-on-year to 5,943, including 1,814 electric vehicles, of which the number of heavy motorcycles declined 30.4 percent to 2,170 (542 of which were electric), whereas light automobiles increased 32.0 percent to 3,203 (779 of which were electric), the statement said.
Macau’s cross-border vehicular traffic in the first half of the year rose 30 percent year-on-year to 4,304,355 trips, according to the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC), the statement said.
The gross weight of containerised cargo by land (34,754 tonnes) increased 114.6 percent year-on-year, with cargo passing through the checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (34,039 tonnes) accounting for 97.9 percent, the statement said.
Macau’s cross-border vehicular traffic passes through several Macau-Zhuhai land border checkpoints as well as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge checkpoint.
Meanwhile, car trips made under the “Northbound Travel for Macao Vehicles” policy (709,000) and Macau car trips to and from Hong Kong (128,000) increased 72.9 percent and 68.1 percent respectively.
