Community Police Liaison Committee CPLC 51 Division: Early Spring Traffic Safety Campaign, Monday, March 6, 2023 to Sunday, March 19, 2023

Monday, March 06, 2023

Early Spring Traffic Safety Campaign, Monday, March 6, 2023 to Sunday, March 19, 2023

Early Spring Traffic Safety Campaign,
Monday, March 6, 2023 to Sunday, March 19, 2023

Broadcast time: 04:25 PM
Date: Monday, Mar 06, 2023
Unit: Traffic Services
Phone: 4168081900
Case #: N/A

The Toronto Police Service is launching an early spring Traffic Safety Campaign running for two weeks from Monday, March 6, 2023 to Sunday, March 19, 2023. The campaign “Operation Road Safe” will coincide with March break and the start of daylight savings time. Traffic Services and the City of Toronto will work in partnership to share key messaging relating to the time change occurring on Sunday, March 12, 2023.

Children represent a large portion of our population and vulnerable road user group. They are vehicle occupants, pedestrians, cyclist and users of small wheeled devices such as scooters or skateboards. Although collisions can happen at any time, day or night, it's imperative that we remain mindful that more school age children will be using our roads and sidewalks during March break.

Sunday, March 12, 2023, is the start of daylight savings time which means our clocks go forward, resulting in sunrise and sunset being an hour later. A combination of potentially more vulnerable road users out during March break, and the start to daylight savings time, means road users need to be more aware of their surroundings and ensure they are well rested.

In the last decade, a total of 643 people have been killed on Toronto’s roads. Year to date in 2023, there have been 5 fatal collisions, and of those, 4 were pedestrians. Last year over the March break (March 14-22, 2022) we had a reported total of 31 pedestrian involved collisions, 2 of which involved youth under the age of 18.

During the two week campaign, traffic enforcement activities will focus on the “Big 4” driver collision-causing behaviours: speeding, driving aggressively, driving while distracted, and driving while impaired.

Toronto’s Vision Zero Road Safety Plan acknowledges that collisions are inevitable, however, killed and seriously injured (KSI) collisions are preventable and unacceptable.

Zero injuries and deaths on our roads is the number that we should all be working towards.

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