Monday, March 11 to Sunday, March 17, 2024
Date: Friday, Mar 08, 2024
Unit: Traffic Services
Case #: N/A
The Toronto Police Service is launching an early spring Traffic Safety Campaign for the week of Monday, March 11 to Sunday, March 17, 2024. The March Break Traffic Safety Campaign will coincide with March break and the start of daylight savings time.
Children represent a large portion of our population and vulnerable road user group. They are vehicle occupants, pedestrians, cyclists, and users of small-wheeled devices such as scooters or skateboards. Although collisions can happen at any time of day or night, we must remain mindful of the fact there will likely be more school-age children on our roads and sidewalks during March break.
Sunday, March 10, 2024, 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 of daylight savings time, means that road users need to be more aware of their surroundings and ensure they are well rested.
From 2021 to 2023, a total of 155 people were killed on Toronto’s roads. Of those, 78 were pedestrians and 4 per cent of victims were under the age of 18 years. Many of these pedestrian deaths occurred on wide arterial roads, signalized streets that carry high volumes of traffic, found in every division.
During this campaign, traffic enforcement activities will focus on the “Big 4” driver collision-causing behaviours such as speeding, driving aggressively, driving while distracted, and driving while impaired.
Toronto’s Vision Zero Road Safety Plan acknowledges that collisions are inevitable but that killed and seriously, injured (KSI) collisions are preventable and unacceptable.
Zero injuries and deaths on our roads are the number that we all should be working towards.
For more information and to follow the campaign on our social media, visit:
- Twitter: @TrafficServices http://www.twitter.com/trafficservices
- Instagram: @TrafficServices http://www.instagram.com/trafficservicestoronto
- Facebook: @TrafficServices http://www.facebook.com/trafficservices
- YouTube: @TrafficServicesTorontoPolice http://www.youtube.com/TrafficServicesTorontoPolice
- TikTok: @TrafficServices http://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJ3fAfVt/
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Constable Sinderela Chung for Superintendent Jacqueline Baus
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