Zuoying Dist. road accident hotspots and casualties

From 2024/01 to 2026/08, Zuoying Dist. recorded 6,514 casualty road accidents, 16 deaths and 8,660 injured, which is 7.5% of Kaohsiung City.

Accidents
6,514
7.5%
Deaths
16
Injured
8,660
Monthly average
203.6
32 months

Zuoying Dist. averaged 203.6 accidents a month over this period. Within a day the peak hour is 17, at 8.5% of the total; the night hours from 22:00 to 05:00 account for 5.9%; weekends account for 24.9%. Excluding the month still being filled in, the last 12 complete months had 2,581 accidents against 2,539 in the 12 months before, up 1.7%.

Motorcycles account for 62.6% of parties involved. Deaths per thousand accidents is 2.46, below 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 Zuoying 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
Cuihua Rd.579
Minzu 1st Rd.481
Zuoyingda Rd.412
Xinzhuangzai Rd.347
Dazhong 2nd Rd.322
Huaxia Rd.308
Ziyou 2nd Rd.271
Boai 2nd Rd.269
Yucheng Rd.256
Boai 3rd Rd.232

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
00:00–01:00671.0%
01:00–02:00160.2%
02:00–03:00230.4%
03:00–04:00160.2%
04:00–05:00140.2%
05:00–06:00300.5%
06:00–07:001081.7%
07:00–08:005127.9%
08:00–09:005448.4%
09:00–10:003946.0%
10:00–11:004026.2%
11:00–12:003745.7%
12:00–13:004216.5%
13:00–14:003365.2%
14:00–15:003425.3%
15:00–16:003655.6%
16:00–17:004667.2%
17:00–18:005548.5%
18:00–19:004857.4%
19:00–20:003635.6%
20:00–21:002383.7%
21:00–22:001943.0%
22:00–23:001552.4%
23:00–00:00951.5%

By day of week

DayAccidentsShare
Mon97014.9%
Tue1,01515.6%
Wed86713.3%
Thu97815.0%
Fri1,06416.3%
Sat88413.6%
Sun73611.3%

Primary causes

Primary causeCountShare
Following too closely1,05816.2%
Other improper driving65510.1%
Insufficient lateral clearance5137.9%
Insufficient evidence and conflicting accounts; cause could not be determined3956.1%
Signalised junction: turning vehicle failed to yield to through traffic3455.3%
Improper left turn3355.1%

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

Collision type

TypeCountShare
Other3,53854.3%
Side impact93014.3%
Rear-end75811.6%
Overturn / fall on road3645.6%
Intersection crossing collision3485.3%
Same-direction sideswipe3315.1%

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 off2,37336.4%
Night, unlit2,29335.2%
Night, lit1,84828.4%
Clear5,84089.7%
Rain4657.1%
Cloudy2033.1%
Other60.1%

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

Party types

Party typePartiesShare
Motorcycle8,94862.6%
Car (incl. passenger/goods)3,67225.7%
Pedestrian1,0557.4%
Bicycle / slow vehicle4263.0%
Light truck1431.0%
Bus550.4%

By month

MonthAccidents
2025/07232
2025/08207
2025/09230
2025/10268
2025/11270
2025/12201
2026/01237
2026/02220
2026/03217
2026/0481
2026/05152
2026/06251
2026/07247
2026/08 (partial)10

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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