# MOTC’s 2024 year-end print still shows 366 pedestrian deaths and a missed 7 percent target

Date: 2025

## The fact

On 5 March 2025 the Ministry of Transportation and Communications released 2024 road-safety figures: 2,950 deaths within 30 days and 366 pedestrian deaths — a 16-year low, still above the cabinet’s 7 percent reduction path from 2023, with Taichung again labelled a pedestrian-hell hotspot. Lai had signed a 2023 pedestrian manifesto as vice president; the 2024 presidency did not retire the label. He did not sit as every city traffic engineer.

## Context

Vision Zero and the Pedestrian Traffic Safety Facilities Act sat as parent law. Neighbouring industrial tariffs are a different household file. Local governments share the kerb.

20 May 2024 oath is the parent presidency.

The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles and commander-in-chief. He does not write a PLA communique, a TSMC capex print, or a Legislative Yuan majority. A National Day address is not a completed interceptor. An inaugural line is not a PLA missile. A special-act press conference is not a passed statute. [William Lai](/people/lai-ching-te) is a common English name for the same person; the stored English name is Lai Ching-te.

## Evidence and sources

MOTC Taiwan carries the official instrument or communique. Taipei Times records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [humanitarian access](/drivers/humanitarian-access): a completed official print that pedestrian death remains a mass civilian-access failure.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 5 March 2025 MOTC 2024 print, independently reported; 366 pedestrian deaths.

Not established: that he uniquely designed every kerb, or a unique later fatality coefficient from that Wednesday.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Cities build kerbs. He owned the cabinet. A 2023 manifesto is parent weather, not this print.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies MOTC’s 2024 year-end print still shows 366 pedestrian deaths and a missed 7 percent target, not a later speech about MOTC’s 2024 year-end print still shows 366 pedestrian deaths and a missed 7 percent target.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. MOTC’s 2024 year-end print still shows 366 pedestrian deaths and a missed 7 percent target on 2025-03-05 is not a licence to treat every later MOTC Taiwan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average MOTC’s 2024 year-end print still shows 366 pedestrian deaths and a missed 7 percent target into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to MOTC printed. Cities build kerbs. He owned the cabinet. A 2023 manifesto is parent weather, not this print. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Lai Ching-te: https://factrail.ai/people/lai-ching-te

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access
- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2025/03/06/2003832970
- https://www.motc.gov.tw/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-lai-pedestrian-2025