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Table 7-7 National Road Traffic Accidents

Registered Motor Vehicles Accident Cases Accident Deaths Accident Injuries
Year (By the end of year) Per 10,000 Motor Per 10,000 Motor Per 10,000 Motor
(Unit: 10,000 Motor Vehicles) Vehicles Vehicles Vehicles

2017 2 170 137.4 0.7 182.4

2018 2 187 147.0 0.7 196.5

2019 2 211 155.5 0.8 207.5

2020 2 230 163.2 0.8 217.7

2021 2 260 159.6 0.8 212.7

Note: 1. The numbers in this table include category A1 (referring to victims who died on the spot or died within 24 hours of the occur-
rence of the accident) and category A2 (referring to victims who were injured or died 24 hours after the accident).
2. The above mentioned “per 10,000 motor vehicles” were calculated by the registered motor vehicles in the middle of the year.

6. Women and Children Safety, Civil Defense Resources, and Community Safety
(1) Women and children safety

The NPA continued to promote the plan of building a safety network against domestic violence, the

plan of visiting domestic violence offenders, as well as the work of patrolling their residences and
providing other services and resources for the victims, in order to prevent recidivism and to effective-
ly control major cases. In 2021, the reported number of domestic violence cases was 101,265; the po-
lice departments also processed 20,325 cases of protection order applications, enforced 26,191 pro-
tection orders, and detected 8,647 cases of domestic violence offenses/protection order violations.

With regard to sexual assaults, the NPA has set up rules for police departments, in order to strength-

en prevention measures, to facilitate case processing, to control the investigation progress, and to
reduce recidivism. In 2021, a total of 4,081 sexual assault cases occurred, while the NPA solved 3,929
cases. By the end of 2021, there were 5,519 registered sex offenders who must regularly report to po-
lice agencies, from which a total of 5,478 offenders followed the rule. As for the remaining 41 offend-
ers who did not show up at police agencies, 16 of them were fined, 2 of them were passed on to the

District Prosecutor’s Offices for investigation, and 23 of them absconded and were listed as wanted.

In an effort to improve the quality of the police's investigation into sexual exploitation cases re-
lated to children and youths, the NPA launched the plan to crack down on sex crimes, with the

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