Traffic related incidents

Slowed down 16.16%

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Aug 19 (PIA) – Despite a relatively freer environment for motorists and commuters with community quarantine restrictions still up, traffic related incidents still managed to slightly slowed down clocking a 16.16% reduction of cases in the first four months of the year.

Enhanced police presence on the streets, border control points and active patrols have relatively kept people from unnecessary travel, which could have contributed to the decrease in incidents involving vehicles on the streets, summed up Camp Dagohoy’s Operations Officer Police major Norman Nuez, who shared the report in lieu of Colonel Osmundo Salibo, provincial director.

During the quarterly joint Provincial Peace and order Council, anti Drug Abuse Council and Task Force on Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC), Major Nuez showed a comparative chart showing the traffic related incidents in first four months of 2020 and 2021.

In 2020 for example, physical injuries caused by traffic related incidents reached 495 for a monthly average of 123 cases.

By this year, for the same period January to April, the incidents went down to 429, or some 66 incidents less, figuring out a 13.33% dip.

For damage to property caused by traffic related incidents, in the first four months of 2020, Bohol Police Provincial Office records 463 incidents which jumped down to 386 in the same opening months of 2021.

The 77 incidents less in 2021 is some 16.63% drop from the previous year’s incidents.

As to homicide caused by traffic related incidents, 2020 records 27 cases which dipped down to 22 by the same period this year.

This reduction of 5 incidents is 18.52% from the 2020 data.

By the end of the first quarter of the year, with the noted surge in coronavirus disease, and with the reports that public transportation are overloading with passengers risking social distancing, the police force once again combed the streets to implement the relevant Department of Transportation policies for transport in General Community Quarantine areas like Bohol.

The simultaneous checkpoints and the patrols have caused workers who have problems with drivers licenses and vehicle registrations to fault in their jobs or be late in timing in.

The drive however resulted in an increase in registrations and obtaining driver’s licenses, which could again work positively for Bohol. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

THIS MUCH. Motorists who have problems with their driving licenses or vehicle registrations wait it out until the police checkpoint breaks, before they can slip through. If this much are not paying the proper road taxes, notice how much the government is losing, while increasing the chances of more traffic incidents. (PIABohol)