Short answer. No. Article 12(7) exempts you from criminal liability if you failed to perform an act the law required because you were prevented by some lawful or insuperable cause — genuine physical or legal impossibility beyond your control excuses the omission, though the burden is on you to show the prevention was real.
What the law says
Any person who fails to perform an act required by law, when prevented by some lawful or insuperable cause.
Revised Penal Code, Article 12 — Exempting Circumstances: Insanity, Accident And Minority. Read the full provision →
The exempting circumstance itself
Article 12 lists several circumstances that exempt a person entirely from criminal liability, and the last of them addresses exactly your situation: any person who fails to perform an act required by law, when prevented by some lawful or insuperable cause is exempt. This applies to crimes of omission — where the law imposes a duty to act and punishes the failure to act — rather than to crimes committed by doing something affirmatively wrong.
"Lawful" cause versus "insuperable" cause
The provision names two distinct kinds of excuse. A lawful cause is a legal impediment — some other duty or legal restraint that made compliance improper or impossible under the law itself. An insuperable cause is a physical or practical impossibility beyond the person's control — genuinely being unable to act, not merely finding it inconvenient or difficult. Being physically prevented from performing the required act, as you describe, fits the insuperable-cause branch of this exemption.
Where this sits among the other exemptions
Paragraph 7 is the last of several circumstances Article 12 recognizes, alongside insanity, accident without fault, irresistible force, and uncontrollable fear. One caution about this same article: its own age thresholds for child offenders are no longer the operative rule. Republic Act No. 9344, the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act, replaced those ages with its own exemptions and procedures for children in conflict with the law. That change concerns the minority paragraphs only and does not affect the lawful-or-insuperable-cause exemption discussed here.
You still have to show the cause was real
Being exempt under this paragraph is not automatic — it depends on actually demonstrating that a lawful or insuperable cause existed and genuinely prevented compliance. General difficulty, forgetfulness, or a cause you could have worked around does not qualify; the exemption is built for situations where performing the legally required act was truly not possible, not merely burdensome under the circumstances. Being able to point to a specific, concrete obstacle — rather than a general explanation for why the act did not happen — is what tends to separate a genuine insuperable cause from an excuse the law will not accept.