Dongshi Township road accident hotspots and casualties
From 2024/01 to 2026/08, Dongshi Township recorded 460 casualty road accidents, 17 deaths and 602 injured, which is 2.1% of Chiayi County.
Dongshi Township averaged 14.4 accidents a month over this period. Within a day the peak hour is 16, at 8.5% of the total; the night hours from 22:00 to 05:00 account for 5.7%; weekends account for 33.3%. Excluding the month still being filled in, the last 12 complete months had 175 accidents against 183 in the 12 months before, down 4.4%.
Motorcycles account for 42.4% of parties involved. Deaths per thousand accidents is 36.96, above the national average of 4.24. That ratio swings sharply when deaths are few, which is especially true in districts that record few accidents to begin with, so do not draw conclusions from it alone.
Roads appearing most often in Dongshi Township
Counted by road names appearing in the accident address. Where the address is written as a junction (“A Rd / B Rd”), both roads are counted once.
| Road | Accidents | |
|---|---|---|
| Provincial Highway 17 | 40 | |
| Provincial Highway 82 | 37 | |
| Provincial Highway 61 | 31 | |
| Dao Rd. | 20 | |
| Guanhai 3rd Rd. | 14 | |
| County Highway 166 | 13 | |
| Caixia Blvd. | 12 | |
| Liming 2nd Rd. | 6 | |
| Tai61pingmiandao Rd. | 6 | |
| Guanhai 1st Rd. | 6 |
Long roads and busy roads naturally rank high. This is where accidents happened, not danger per kilometre. Road names are automatic romanisation, not official signage.
When accidents happen
| Hour | Accidents | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00–01:00 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| 01:00–02:00 | 4 | 0.9% | |
| 02:00–03:00 | 2 | 0.4% | |
| 03:00–04:00 | 4 | 0.9% | |
| 04:00–05:00 | 1 | 0.2% | |
| 05:00–06:00 | 11 | 2.4% | |
| 06:00–07:00 | 16 | 3.5% | |
| 07:00–08:00 | 27 | 5.9% | |
| 08:00–09:00 | 26 | 5.7% | |
| 09:00–10:00 | 26 | 5.7% | |
| 10:00–11:00 | 24 | 5.2% | |
| 11:00–12:00 | 34 | 7.4% | |
| 12:00–13:00 | 26 | 5.7% | |
| 13:00–14:00 | 21 | 4.6% | |
| 14:00–15:00 | 26 | 5.7% | |
| 15:00–16:00 | 38 | 8.3% | |
| 16:00–17:00 | 39 | 8.5% | |
| 17:00–18:00 | 36 | 7.8% | |
| 18:00–19:00 | 27 | 5.9% | |
| 19:00–20:00 | 27 | 5.9% | |
| 20:00–21:00 | 19 | 4.1% | |
| 21:00–22:00 | 11 | 2.4% | |
| 22:00–23:00 | 9 | 2.0% | |
| 23:00–00:00 | 6 | 1.3% |
By day of week
| Day | Accidents | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 66 | 14.3% | |
| Tue | 60 | 13.0% | |
| Wed | 56 | 12.2% | |
| Thu | 63 | 13.7% | |
| Fri | 62 | 13.5% | |
| Sat | 84 | 18.3% | |
| Sun | 69 | 15.0% |
Primary causes
| Primary cause | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insufficient evidence and conflicting accounts; cause could not be determined | 39 | 8.5% | |
| Following too closely | 39 | 8.5% | |
| Distracted driving: inattention or anxiety | 35 | 7.6% | |
| Other improper driving | 32 | 7.0% | |
| Unsignalised junction: minor road failed to yield to major road | 21 | 4.6% | |
| Running a red light | 21 | 4.6% |
This is the attending officer's assessment, not a court finding.
Collision type
| Type | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Side impact | 86 | 18.7% | |
| Intersection crossing collision | 81 | 17.6% | |
| Other | 75 | 16.3% | |
| Rear-end | 55 | 12.0% | |
| Overturn / fall on road | 51 | 11.1% | |
| Hit guardrail / post | 20 | 4.3% |
Type is the collision pattern recorded by police; "Other" is how the source data classifies it and cannot be split further.
Lighting and weather
| Condition | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daytime / lights off | 219 | 47.6% | |
| Night, unlit | 121 | 26.3% | |
| Night, lit | 120 | 26.1% | |
| Clear | 386 | 83.9% | |
| Cloudy | 49 | 10.7% | |
| Rain | 22 | 4.8% | |
| Other | 3 | 0.7% |
"Daytime / lights off" is the source category "lighting present but off or faulty", which in practice is mostly daytime.
Party types
| Party type | Parties | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motorcycle | 383 | 42.4% | |
| Car (incl. passenger/goods) | 293 | 32.4% | |
| Pedestrian | 122 | 13.5% | |
| Bicycle / slow vehicle | 48 | 5.3% | |
| Light truck | 46 | 5.1% | |
| Heavy truck | 12 | 1.3% |
By month
| Month | Accidents | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/07 | 23 | |
| 2025/08 | 15 | |
| 2025/09 | 14 | |
| 2025/10 | 20 | |
| 2025/11 | 10 | |
| 2025/12 | 13 | |
| 2026/01 | 16 | |
| 2026/02 | 16 | |
| 2026/03 | 12 | |
| 2026/04 | 6 | |
| 2026/05 | 16 | |
| 2026/06 | 22 | |
| 2026/07 | 15 | |
| 2026/08 (partial) | 2 |
Months with no recorded accidents are not listed.
The National Police Agency refreshes its rolling data on the 1st and 15th of each month, so the last month is still being filled in and will always read low. Do not compare it with earlier months.
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How to read these numbers
More accidents does not mean more dangerous. Places with more traffic, longer roads and denser population naturally record more. This data has no traffic volume to divide by, so a rate per ten thousand vehicle passes cannot be computed; it can only tell you where accidents actually happened.
The road ranking counts road names appearing in the address. In Taiwan 26% of accident addresses are written as a reference point along a road rather than an exact position, so this ranking is reliable at the level of a road but not at the level of a junction.
Only A1 and A2 accidents, which involve casualties, are included. Property-damage-only collisions are not, so the real number of collisions is higher.
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