Road accidents: An endless phenomena in Cebu City

September 19,2021 - 09:00 AM

In the data released by the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas for the first half of the year, they recorded 1,142 accidents in Cebu City from January 1 to May 31, 2021. At least 7 were charged with reckless imprudence resulting in homicide while 2 were charged with reckless imprudence resulting in multiple homicides.The chances of dying in a vehicular accident in Cebu City would be 0.26 percent as based on PRO-7’s record only three individuals actually died in the road in the first half of the year.Road accidents are a common form of incident in highly urbanized cities that residents face daily.

In fact, he said the city did not seem to know what to do with the roads nor had it defined what it really wanted from the road. “If you had over a moratorium for over 10 years, it tells you that the population grows, there was a higher demand for transportation. But the moratorium did not allow for capacity to take place. People are buying more cars, and because cars created more traffic, then people bought more motorcycles. And most recently, because of COVID-19, there was a surge for the use of bicycles,” said Caindec.

In order to achieve this, Caindec said the city government had to study the movement of the people in and out of the city and identify the minimum distance a person would travel by foot and by public transport or vehicle. Lastly, he urged the city government to start harmonizing policies that would pave the steps to changing the way roads were being used.

This would already allow enforcers to accurately determine if a driver has indeed violated the speed limit and then apply the necessary penalty of P2,000 to P5,000 depending on the violation.“It starts with the speed limit. Later, we begin to realize that this part of the road must be used for a specific function and we can adapt our policies to that,” he said.

Yet Cuenco is aware that there is much to be done in reducing the instances of road accidents in the city.

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