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Past City of Toronto pedestrian collision reports

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For many years, the City of Toronto published one-page breakdowns of the statistics about collisions between vehicles and pedestrians in Toronto, and posted them in the “walking” section of the City of Toronto website. They stopped publishing them in 2013, and the old reports seem to have disappeared from the website. Instead, we now have some open data, which has interesting visualizations but only provides statistics on deaths and serious injuries, not all collisions, which does not give a full picture.

Thanks to the Internet Archive (hat tip to Gil Meslin for finding this), the old reports can be retrieved. They give an in-depth series of statistics on pedestrian collisions over 12 years (2000-2012). They also show the level of detailed information about pedestrian safety that the City of Toronto could be providing, but chooses not to, despite its Vision Zero rhetoric.

The way the statistics stop abruptly in September 2013 shows how suddenly the City decided to stop collecting this important safety information.