MACAO, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Macao's cross-border vehicle traffic in August grew by 10.9 percent year-on-year to 458,500 trips, the special administrative region's statistics service said here on Wednesday.

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The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed that the vehicle trips passing through the Cotai Checkpoint (147,219) rose by 7.5 percent, whereas those going through the Border Gate (270,630) inched down by 0.9 percent.

Besides, there were 37,546 trips crossing the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the DSEC report added.

In the first eight months of 2019, cross-border vehicular traffic went up by 8.2 percent year-on-year to 3,517,562 trips.

Commercial flights at the Macao International Airport totaled 6,638 trips in August, a growth of 20.5 percent year-on-year. The trips to and from Chinese mainland (2,762) and China's Taiwan region (1,243) showed respective increases of 31.8 percent and 13.9 percent.

Inbound and outbound commercial flights in the first eight months rose by 19.5 percent year-on-year to 48,753 trips.

Macao's licensed motor vehicles totaled 238,666 at the end of August 2019, a slight increase of 121 year-on-year. New registration of motor vehicles in August dropped by 4.8 percent year-on-year to 1,122.

In the first eight months of 2019, new registration of motor vehicles decreased by 18.7 percent year-on-year to 7,966.

The number of traffic accidents went up by 19.6 percent year-on-year to 1,578 in August, and the number of injuries totaled 504. In the first eight months, there were 8,915 traffic accidents. The number of victims totaled 2,946 and five of them were killed.