Macau recorded 15,511 road traffic accidents last year, including five fatalities, marking the highest number of accidents in the past nine years, according to information released by the Public Security Police (PSP) on their official website this week.
Road traffic statistics by the Public Security Police showed that last year’s total of more than 15,000 traffic accidents was nearly 2,000 more than in 2023, with an increase of 14.36 percent year on year. This figure was the third highest compared to the 16,029 accidents recorded in 2014 and the 15,804 in 2015.
The Public Security Police said that the five traffic fatalities recorded last year were down from the eight recorded in 2023. Last year’s fatalities comprised four males and one female, all of them drivers.
Last year, 5,341 people were injured in traffic accidents, a year-on-year surge of more than 600 people, 76 of whom required hospitalisation, a decrease of 67, or over 46 percent, compared to 2023. The number of traffic accidents involving pedestrians increased by 6 percent year on year to 510.
Meanwhile, the Public Security Police issued more than 700,000 fines for road traffic violations, a year-on-year increase of less than one percent, while the total fines involved amounted to 189 million patacas, a year-on-year of jump of more than nine percent, the highest amount in the last six years.
The traffic violations included illegal parking, disobeying traffic signs and jaywalking, accounting for 618,260 cases, 32,693 cases and 7,460 cases respectively, with an increase of about 58 percent in the number of pedestrians crossing the road illegally.
This file photo taken last year shows police officers and firefighters standing next to a lorry and a public bus which collided on Friendship Bridge. – Photo courtesy of TDM
