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JICA and the Tegucigalpa municipal authority will launch a technical cooperation project in January 2027, using Japanese experts to analyze traffic accidents, identify high-risk zones, and recommend infrastructure and prevention measures.

Tegucigalpa's municipal authority implemented a traffic-flow change at the Lomas del Guijarro roundabout on weekday mornings and afternoons to reduce congestion at peak hours and school traffic times.

Hospital Escuela's emergency wards are at 120% capacity, overwhelmed by road-accident victims, as traffic crashes have killed more than 1,950 people in Honduras so far in 2026.

Police in Tegucigalpa stopped a minibus driver on the Cerro Grande–Kennedy route after he drove against traffic to bypass congestion, endangering passengers and other motorists.

The Tegucigalpa municipal government has banned left turns from El Manchén toward Casamata based on traffic studies showing the maneuver caused congestion and increased accident risk at the busy intersection.

The Tegucigalpa municipal government modified traffic flow at the busy Casamata and El Manchén intersection to reduce congestion, improve safety, and address conflict points identified in technical studies, with new signage and driver-education campaigns underway.

A woman died early Sunday when her car struck an electrical pole on the Peripheral Ring road near Tegucigalpa's Quezada neighborhood; authorities suspect excessive speed caused the crash, which left another person injured.

A young motorcyclist, Marlon Gerardo Antúnez Díaz, died after a traffic accident on a median of Boulevard Kuwait in Tegucigalpa.

Tegucigalpa's municipal government announced a plan to improve traffic order and reduce accidents on the congested eastern highway corridor, working with national transport authorities to overcome past obstacles from organized crime and street vendors.

Rescue workers recovered the body of a 9-year-old girl from the wreckage of a runaway dump truck that lost its brakes in the Villa Nueva neighborhood, bringing the death toll to eight.

Hospital Escuela spokesperson Said Norales says nine in ten inpatients at the Tegucigalpa public hospital are there due to traffic accidents.

A driver nearly lost his life in a serious collision in the San Miguel neighborhood of Tegucigalpa that knocked down a power pole, leaving nearby areas without electricity.

Congress President Tomás Zambrano is calling for a thorough investigation into a road accident in Villanueva that killed at least eight people and injured about a dozen, and urging authorities to enforce traffic laws strictly to prevent future crashes.