MANILA, Philippines — Metro Manila recorded a daily average of 312 road crashes last year, a partial report of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said, as the capital region failed to keep pace with the national goal to reduce the cases by 2020.
According to the MMDA report, a copy of which was given to the Inquirer, Quezon City again led the capital region as the city with the highest number of road crashes recorded in 2019 with 36,349 cases.
This meant that it recorded around 100 crashes daily or equivalent to 32 percent of the total 113,816 recorded cases last year. In 2018, Metro Manila recorded 116,906 crashes, the highest since the MMDA began collecting data in 2005.
The agency attributed the consistently high number of crashes in the largest metropolitan city to its dense population, high number of bottlenecks in road networks, and its hosting of parts of Edsa and C5.
The cities of Manila and Makati ranked second and third with 12,158 (10.7 percent) and 10,793 (9 percent) recorded cases, respectively.
The rest of Metro Manila recorded four-digit incidents, while Navotas and Pateros ranked last with 938 and 173, respectively.