In addition to this week being National Nurses Week, it’s Canada Road Safety Week.
The focus of Road Safety Week is how alcohol continues to be a major factor in road fatalities.
One-third of the 16 fatal crashes from the first four months of 2020 involved alcohol.
The data shows that in those 16 fatal crashes, 17 people died, which is slightly lower than the 10 year average of 17 fatal crashes and 19 deaths.
Of those 17 deaths, at least five were alcohol-related and two didn’t wear a seatbelt.
Two pedestrians were killed in the first four months of 2020 compared to six in the same period of 2019.
Off-road vehicle fatalities have increased in the first four months.
There were 7 fatalities compared to one in the same period of 2019 and the five year average of 4 from 2014-2018.
