Shimen Dist. road accident hotspots and casualties
From 2024/01 to 2026/08, Shimen Dist. recorded 168 casualty road accidents, 6 deaths and 211 injured, which is 0.1% of New Taipei City.
Shimen Dist. recorded only 168 accidents across these 32 months (records in 31 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.
Shimen Dist. averaged 5.2 accidents a month over this period. Within a day the peak hour is 16, at 9.5% of the total; the night hours from 22:00 to 05:00 account for 26.2%; weekends account for 35.7%.
Motorcycles account for 51.0% of parties involved. There were 6 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 Shimen 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.
| Road | Accidents | |
|---|---|---|
| Provincial Highway 2 | 116 | |
| Zhongyang Rd. | 18 | |
| Wuming Rd. | 8 | |
| Jianzilu Rd. | 7 | |
| Laomei Rd. | 6 | |
| Zhongshan Rd. | 6 | |
| Zhucaotan Rd. | 4 | |
| Fenglin Rd. | 4 | |
| Kanzijiao Rd. | 4 | |
| Laobengshan Rd. | 4 |
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 | 9 | 5.4% | |
| 01:00–02:00 | 4 | 2.4% | |
| 02:00–03:00 | 8 | 4.8% | |
| 03:00–04:00 | 6 | 3.6% | |
| 04:00–05:00 | 5 | 3.0% | |
| 05:00–06:00 | 2 | 1.2% | |
| 06:00–07:00 | 3 | 1.8% | |
| 07:00–08:00 | 7 | 4.2% | |
| 08:00–09:00 | 9 | 5.4% | |
| 09:00–10:00 | 10 | 6.0% | |
| 10:00–11:00 | 7 | 4.2% | |
| 11:00–12:00 | 13 | 7.7% | |
| 12:00–13:00 | 12 | 7.1% | |
| 13:00–14:00 | 8 | 4.8% | |
| 14:00–15:00 | 13 | 7.7% | |
| 15:00–16:00 | 3 | 1.8% | |
| 16:00–17:00 | 16 | 9.5% | |
| 17:00–18:00 | 11 | 6.5% | |
| 18:00–19:00 | 5 | 3.0% | |
| 19:00–20:00 | 1 | 0.6% | |
| 20:00–21:00 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| 21:00–22:00 | 4 | 2.4% | |
| 22:00–23:00 | 8 | 4.8% | |
| 23:00–00:00 | 4 | 2.4% |
By day of week
| Day | Accidents | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 28 | 16.7% | |
| Tue | 16 | 9.5% | |
| Wed | 14 | 8.3% | |
| Thu | 25 | 14.9% | |
| Fri | 25 | 14.9% | |
| Sat | 24 | 14.3% | |
| Sun | 36 | 21.4% |
Primary causes
| Primary cause | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Improper vehicle or equipment operation | 38 | 22.6% | |
| No cause determined yet | 19 | 11.3% | |
| Following too closely | 19 | 11.3% | |
| Distracted driving: inattention or anxiety | 15 | 8.9% | |
| Failure to slow down as required | 7 | 4.2% | |
| Insufficient lateral clearance | 6 | 3.6% |
This is the attending officer's assessment, not a court finding.
Collision type
| Type | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overturn / fall on road | 36 | 21.4% | |
| Rear-end | 31 | 18.5% | |
| Hit guardrail / post | 22 | 13.1% | |
| Same-direction sideswipe | 18 | 10.7% | |
| Other | 14 | 8.3% | |
| Side impact | 13 | 7.7% |
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 | 80 | 47.6% | |
| Night, lit | 57 | 33.9% | |
| Night, unlit | 31 | 18.5% | |
| Clear | 120 | 71.4% | |
| Cloudy | 29 | 17.3% | |
| Rain | 19 | 11.3% |
"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 | 156 | 51.0% | |
| Car (incl. passenger/goods) | 77 | 25.2% | |
| Pedestrian | 52 | 17.0% | |
| Bicycle / slow vehicle | 14 | 4.6% | |
| Bus | 6 | 2.0% | |
| Military vehicle | 1 | 0.3% |
By month
| Month | Accidents | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/06 | 9 | |
| 2025/07 | 6 | |
| 2025/08 | 8 | |
| 2025/09 | 7 | |
| 2025/10 | 7 | |
| 2025/11 | 5 | |
| 2025/12 | 5 | |
| 2026/01 | 5 | |
| 2026/02 | 4 | |
| 2026/03 | 3 | |
| 2026/04 | 6 | |
| 2026/05 | 4 | |
| 2026/06 | 5 | |
| 2026/07 (partial) | 5 |
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.
See Shimen Dist. on the map
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Open the accident heatmap for Shimen Dist.
Flood potential in Shimen District — the same township in the flood potential tool: simulated flooded area under ten rainfall scenarios.
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.
Other districts in New Taipei City
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