Shanlin Dist. road accident hotspots and casualties

From 2024/01 to 2026/08, Shanlin Dist. recorded 91 casualty road accidents, 1 deaths and 122 injured, which is 0.1% of Kaohsiung City.

Shanlin Dist. recorded only 91 accidents across these 32 months (records in 30 of them). The counts and casualty figures are actual records and can be quoted directly. The percentages, hourly distribution and rankings derived from them swing wildly at this sample size — one more or one fewer accident changes the result — so they should not be used to rank this area against others.

Accidents
91
0.1%
Deaths
1
Injured
122
Monthly average
2.8
32 months

Shanlin Dist. averaged 2.8 accidents a month over this period. Within a day the peak hour is 10, at 17.6% of the total; the night hours from 22:00 to 05:00 account for 4.4%; weekends account for 33.0%.

Motorcycles account for 50.3% of parties involved. There were 1 deaths in this period. With numbers that small it is not meaningful to convert to a death rate and compare with other areas — a single accident moves it by several times.

Roads appearing most often in Shanlin Dist.

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.

RoadAccidents
Qingshui Rd.33
Sima Rd.14
Shanxian Rd.12
Wuming Rd.9
Tongzhu Rd.5
Hexin Rd.3
Shanmei Rd., Sec. 13
Cunqingshui Rd.2
Provincial Highway 292
Shanmei Rd., Sec. 22

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

HourAccidentsShare
00:00–01:0011.1%
01:00–02:0000.0%
02:00–03:0000.0%
03:00–04:0022.2%
04:00–05:0000.0%
05:00–06:0022.2%
06:00–07:0022.2%
07:00–08:0066.6%
08:00–09:0066.6%
09:00–10:0077.7%
10:00–11:001617.6%
11:00–12:001112.1%
12:00–13:0011.1%
13:00–14:0022.2%
14:00–15:0033.3%
15:00–16:001112.1%
16:00–17:0066.6%
17:00–18:0088.8%
18:00–19:0044.4%
19:00–20:0022.2%
20:00–21:0000.0%
21:00–22:0000.0%
22:00–23:0011.1%
23:00–00:0000.0%

By day of week

DayAccidentsShare
Mon99.9%
Tue1415.4%
Wed1314.3%
Thu1415.4%
Fri1112.1%
Sat1617.6%
Sun1415.4%

Primary causes

Primary causeCountShare
Insufficient evidence and conflicting accounts; cause could not be determined99.9%
Other failure to yield88.8%
Distracted driving: inattention or anxiety66.6%
Pulling away without checking55.5%
No cause determined yet55.5%
Failure to slow down as required55.5%

This is the attending officer's assessment, not a court finding.

Collision type

TypeCountShare
Other2426.4%
Side impact1415.4%
Intersection crossing collision1112.1%
Overturn / fall on road99.9%
Same-direction sideswipe55.5%
Hit guardrail / post44.4%

Type is the collision pattern recorded by police; "Other" is how the source data classifies it and cannot be split further.

Lighting and weather

ConditionCountShare
Daytime / lights off5964.8%
Night, lit1718.7%
Night, unlit1516.5%
Clear8189.0%
Cloudy88.8%
Rain22.2%

"Daytime / lights off" is the source category "lighting present but off or faulty", which in practice is mostly daytime.

Party types

Party typePartiesShare
Motorcycle8750.3%
Car (incl. passenger/goods)4928.3%
Pedestrian2212.7%
Bicycle / slow vehicle84.6%
Light truck52.9%
Other vehicle21.2%

By month

MonthAccidents
2025/054
2025/064
2025/073
2025/081
2025/092
2025/102
2025/111
2025/127
2026/0110
2026/024
2026/032
2026/041
2026/051
2026/07 (partial)1

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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