More than 70 percent of road crash injuries recorded over the holidays involved motorcycles, according to the latest data released on Friday by the Department of Health (DOH). The agency also reported that five of the seven deaths recorded from Dec. 21, 2025, to Jan. 2, 2026, were motorcycle riders’ passengers; the other two were pedestrians. Citing data from 10 sentinel hospitals, the DOH recorded 1,113 total cases of holiday road crashes for that period, representing an 82-percent increase compared to the same period last year. READ: Nearly 250 injured in Holiday road accidents in Central Visayas Of these cases, […]... Keep on reading: Holiday road crashes: DOH says 71% of them involved motorcycles