The OPP has released data on fatal road collisions over the past 10 years. Stats show more that 35 hundred deaths happened because of crashes across Ontario in that time. Constable Lynda Cranney says the OPP has seen a decrease in some areas, but hopes numbers will continue to drop in the next 10 years.
The OPP says in the study, young men were the hardest hit. Close to 24 hundred men died compared to about 11 hundred women from 2005 to 2014. Meanwhile, there been a decrease in fatal collisions among young people and children. In 2005, almost 30 children under 16-years-old and just over 40 teens died. Last year, those numbers dropped to four kids and 16 teens. Constable Cranney says education played a huge role.
The OPP released the data last week and Constable Cranney talks about why the OPP decided to release those stats now
Those areas include a decrease in child and teen deaths on Ontario roads.