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1. Road safety: a shared responsibility
   • Canadians are among the most mobile people on earth
   • Travel is safer than it has been in 25 years
   • Despite huge improvements in road safety, nearly 3000 Canadians die on the roads every year
      
2. A profile of collisions in Canada
   • Single-vehicle collisions accounted for half of all fatal collisions
   • Two-thirds of fatal collisions occurred on rural roads
   • Three out of four serious collisions occurred in clear weather
   • Almost one in five fatal collisions occurred on Saturday
   • July and August observed the highest frequencies of fatal collisions
   • Vehicles In Collisions
      
3. People at risk
   • High-risk behaviour on our roads
      
4. Alcohol: unsafe at any speed
    
5. 9 out of 10 Canadians buckle up!
   • 40 percent of Canadians killed had not buckled up
      
6. Drivers and passengers at risk
   • Two-thirds of Canada’s road victims are male
   • Young drivers are over-represented in fatal and injury-producing collisions
   • Almost all Canadians, regardless of age group, were safer on the roads
   • Commercial vehicle collisions accounted for one in five deaths
   • School bus travel is very safe
      
7. Vulnerable road users
   • Motorcyclists accounted for one in 18 fatalities
   • Bicycle deaths cut in half - even for high-risk young boys
   • Older pedestrians accounted for one third of all pedestrian fatalities
   • Sources of Information

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