Traffic Accidents Statistics

The Council's programmes and direction are determined on the hard evidence of the accident trends and causations.  Traffic accident statistics and trends are therefore carefully analysed to develop and implement measures to mitigate and prevent traffic accidents.

2010 Statistics

An analysis of Hong Kong's traffic accident statistics for 2010 reveals 14,943 traffic accidents involved injuries and 19,124 resulted in casualties. On average, 41 traffic accidents with injuries occurred every day during the year and that about two persons were killed every week.  Compared to the previous year, the number of accidents and the number of casualties increased by 4.38% and 5.44% respectively.

Categorising accidents by collision type reveals that in 2010 the number of vehicle collisions involving pedestrians increased from 3,283 cases in 2009 to 3,591 cases in 2010.  Cases involving vehicles colliding with another vehicle also increased from 5,646 cases in 2009 to 5,986 cases in 2010.

While there has not been any significant change in the past decade in the number of traffic accidents involving injuries, there is a downward trend in fatalities.  A total of 117 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2010, this is the lowest number recorded in Hong Kong since 1955.

The Council studies causes and consequences of traffic accidents and maintains a comprehensive traffic accident data base to help formulating road safety strategies.  Clearly, pedestrians consistently suffer the highest number of fatalities while private cars are the largest group involved in accidents.  Of the 22,602 vehicles involved in traffic accidents in 2010, private cars accounted for 6,255, compared with 4,053 taxis, 2,726 light goods vehicles, 2,442 public buses, 2,428 motorcycles, 2,027 bicycles and 2,671 other vehicle types.

Impact of Road Conditions

Statistics show that 26% of the traffic accident related injuries occurred at road junctions while 27% occurred at pedestrian crossings.  Some 30% of traffic accidents happened at night time while another 3% happened at dawn or dusk.

Top 5 contributory factors in traffic accidents 2010
(from 4 perspectives)




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