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Fewer crashes, more deaths
Crashes without injuries fall 70%; deaths double.
A reduction that changes shape · Did the harm also go down?
31,598 traffic incidents in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, read by severity, neighborhood, avenue and hour: the total falls to a third, but pedestrian collisions and deaths do not. Three avenues account for one in five casualties.
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The problem
Recorded traffic incidents in Guadalupe fell to a third between 2020 and 2024. Read as a total, the figure looks like good news.
Broken down by severity, and taken to each neighborhood, avenue and hour, it shows something else: what disappears is the minor collision; pedestrian collisions and deaths do not go down.
What we found
Property-damage-only crashes fall, but deaths rise
Property-damage-only incidents fell from 7,542 (2020) to 2,296 (2024); fatal incidents rose from 15 to 27 and people killed from 15 to 30.
Almost half of those killed in traffic were pedestrians
Being struck as a pedestrian is the deadliest type of incident (44 fatal incidents in six years); 52 of the 111 people killed were pedestrians.
Three avenues account for one in five of the municipality’s casualties
Eloy Cavazos, Benito Juárez and Pablo Livas account for 20% of all incidents with casualties; Eloy Cavazos totals 14 fatal incidents.
Prevention territories have more traffic casualties than their size would suggest
The eleven monitored territories cover 6.3% of the area and account for 9.5% of traffic casualties and 10.8% of injured pedestrians.
One neighborhood concentrates an extreme number of injured pedestrians
Jardines de Andalucía totals 77 traffic casualties, 41 of them pedestrians.
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What we recommend
Plan road safety and prevention together in Tres Caminos, Azteca and Cañada Blanca: crossings, lighting and speed on the same streets.
Road safety and prevention share the same territory and the same streets.
Analysis of georeferenced open data, severity-based reading and cartographic storytelling · Guadalupe, Nuevo León · 2026
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