THE Metro Manila Development Authority has identified at least 50 major roads in the National Capital Region where most road accidents occur.
In northern part of Metro Manila, road accidents usually happen along Quirino Highway and Rizal Avenue in Caloocan City; Circumferential Road- 4, Gov. Pascual Avenue, M.H. Del Pilar Street, and McArthur Highway in Malabon City; Honorio Lopez Boulevard, Radial Road 10, and Naval Street in Navotas, and Maysan Road and McArthur Highway in Valenzuela.
In southern part, the accident prone areas are Sergio Osmeña Highway and Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue in Makati City; the Alabang-Zapote Road, Real Street and Marcos Alvarez Avenue in Las Piñas City; West Service Road, National Highway, and Alabang-Zapote Road in Muntinlupa City; West Service Road, Roxas Boulevard, Ninoy Aquino Avenue, and Dr. A Santos Avenue in Parañaque City; Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue Extension and Roxas Boulevard in Pasay City; Carlos P. Garcia Avenue, Circumferential Road 5, M.L. Quezon Street and East Service Road in Taguig City, and Almeda Street and Herrera Street in Pateros.
In the eastern part of Metro Manila, the areas identified were the Marcos and Sumulong Highways in Marikina City; Edsa and Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong City; Ortigas Avenue, E. Rodriguez Jr. Avenue, Marcos Highway and Julia Vargas Street in Pasig City; and Ortigas Avenue, Edsa, Santolan Road, P. Guevarra Street and N. Domingo Street in San Juan City.
In Manila, road accidents occur mostly along President Sergio Osmeña Highway, Radial Road 10 and Roxas Boulevard; and Commonwealth Avenue, Edsa, Quirino Highway, Quezon Avenue and Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City.
The MMDA identified those areas based on the 2015 Metro Manila Accident Recording and Analysis System program created and operated by the agency’s Traffic Discipline and Engineering Offices—Road Safety Unit in close cooperation with the Philippine National Police.
Based on the MMRAS report, a total of 95,615 road accidents happened in 2015, of which 519 deaths were recorded. Of the 519 cases, more than 200 involved motorcyclists. It also showed that the highest number of road accidents happened during the month of December and caused by human error (indisciplined drivers) and vehicular defect.
The total number of deaths last year was up by 101 compared to the 418 deaths listed in 2014. Those injured in road accidents from 2014 to 2015 also increased by 1,000.
The 2015 MMRAS report also showed that 146 deaths were recorded in Quezon City, followed by Manila with 83, Caloocan (43), Taguig (39), Valenzuela (33), Marikina and Parañaque (26), Las Piñas (24), Pasig (23), Muntinlupa (21), Makati (19), Navotas (12), Pasay (10), Mandaluyong (7), Malabon (5), and San Juan (2).
No casualty reported in Pateros, according to MMRAS.
The MMRAS was created to provide information on “fatal”, “non-fatal injury” and “damage to property” road crashes that have been recorded by the MMDA Road Safety Unit thru the police report of the PNP.
“Although influx of traffic accident data increases tremendously, the Road Safety Unit managed to store this damage to property incidences to our MMRAS database and now included in the analysis for the formulation of remedial measures that would be introduced on the identified black spots,” the MMDA stated in its report.