Three CDMX Intersections Record Over 440 Traffic Incidents

Circuito Interior-Calzada de Guadalupe, Miramontes-Acoxpa and Tlalpan-Taxqueña ranked as Mexico City’s most incident-prone intersections from 2023 to 2025.

Three major Mexico City intersections accumulated more than 440 reported traffic incidents between 2023 and 2025, highlighting persistent road-safety risks linked to speeding, signal violations, heavy traffic, and inadequate protection for vulnerable road users.

The intersection of Circuito Interior and Calzada de Guadalupe registered 227 incidents during the three-year period, making it the most accident-prone of the locations analyzed, according to an El Universal report based on the quarterly traffic incident reports published by Mexico City’s Ministry of Mobility. It was followed by Canal de Miramontes and Calzada Acoxpa, with 111 incidents, and Calzada de Tlalpan and Avenida Taxqueña, with 105. Together, the three intersections accounted for 443 reported incidents from 2023 through 2025.

The totals reflect the number of reported incidents rather than a ranking based exclusively on fatalities or severity. However, their repeated appearance in official records points to structural problems affecting some of the capital’s busiest road corridors.

Speeding, Signal Violations Increase Risks

At Circuito Interior and Calzada de Guadalupe, heavy traffic converges with pedestrian activity, motorcycles, bicycles, and freight vehicles. Drivers frequently fail to respect traffic lights and stop signals, while motorcycles and bicycles sometimes travel against the direction of traffic. The presence of schools and constant pedestrian movement adds to the risks at the intersection. Residents and road users say crashes are especially common at night, when reduced visibility, speeding, and alcohol consumption can intensify unsafe driving behavior.

The Miramontes-Acoxpa intersection also combines high vehicle volumes with commercial activity, public transportation and pedestrian crossings. Specialists cited by the newspaper said poor compliance with traffic rules and the complexity of vehicle movements can create conflict points between motorists, motorcyclists and pedestrians. At Tlalpan and Taxqueña, the wide road layout and the speed reached by vehicles on Calzada de Tlalpan make crossing particularly difficult for pedestrians. The area also receives traffic associated with public transportation, commercial activity and connections to other major roads in southern Mexico City.

SEMOVI maintains a public repository of quarterly traffic reports covering each year since 2018. These documents consolidate information from agencies including the city’s C5 emergency center, the Citizen Security Ministry, and the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office.  

The 1Q25 report shows that C5 received 18,932 road-incident reports, an 8.3% decline from 20,645 during the same period of 2024. The figure remained 5.6% above the 17,923 reports recorded during the first quarter of 2019.  

Despite the annual reduction, the volume represents an average of more than 200 reports per day during the first three months of 2025.

Motorcyclists Remain the Most Vulnerable Group

SEMOVI reported 111 traffic-related deaths during the first quarter of 2025, down 11% from 125 in the same period of 2024. Motorcyclists represented 48.6% of fatalities, with 54 deaths, while pedestrians accounted for 29.7%, with 33. Motorcyclists also represented the largest proportion of injured road users, accounting for 4,050, or 46.8%, of the 8,659 people injured during the quarter. Passengers followed with 21.5%.  

Half of the people killed during the period died in collisions, while crashes accounted for six out of every 10 people injured. The findings underscore the particular exposure of motorcycle users, whose share of traffic deaths has increased substantially since 2019.  

Road type also influences the severity of incidents. During the first quarter of 2025, Mexico City’s arterial roads, known as ejes viales, recorded 32 of 108 fatal incidents, or 30% of the total. Primary roads and controlled-access roads each represented 23%. Controlled-access roads registered the highest fatal incident rate per 100km of roadway.  

Circuito Interior was among the corridors with the highest concentration of fatal incidents during that period, recording five, according to SEMOVI.

Specialists Call for Technology and Safer Street Design

Specialists call for stronger speed enforcement, improved pedestrian infrastructure, stricter regulation of freight vehicles, and greater use of technology to identify risky behavior. Potential measures include intelligent cameras capable of detecting signal violations, speeding or vehicles traveling in prohibited directions. Experts also call for better lighting, clearer road markings, safer pedestrian phases at traffic lights and infrastructure designed to reduce vehicle speeds before drivers enter intersections.

Specialists stress that enforcement must be accompanied by road design changes and sustained safety campaigns. Intersections that allow vehicles to maintain high speeds while requiring pedestrians to cross several lanes can remain dangerous even when signs and traffic lights are present.