It’s a 10 year high that shouldn’t be celebrated as OPP have their numbers in for road deaths from 2021.
Since 2020, road deaths rose by three per cent with 2021 claiming a total of 315 lives.
On roads that are patrolled by the provincial police, 81 people lost their lives in 2021 solely due to speeding collisions.
Officers responded to 60,544 road crashes last year, which is still up by eight per cent from the previous year.
On the water, marine patrols responded to more than 20 incidents that killed 27 people in 2021. Many of those who lost their lives weren’t wearing life jackets/personal float devices.
When it came to leisure deaths, there were 22 people that died while off-roading in some capacity. Alcohol and/or drugs were a factor in more than a third of the fatalities and only half of all the deaths were the victims wearing helmets.