P.E.I. Canada’s most dangerous province for driving: study

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• The roads of P.E.I. see more per-capita deaths than other provinces, says a new study
• The report, prepared by personal injury lawyers in Ontario, is based on 2021 traffic-death data
• Note: smaller provinces may see outsized effect of measuring fatalities per-capita
  

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Here’s a boast you won’t find in any tourist brochures for the Gentle Island. According to a study by pencil-necked personal injury dweebs lawyers in (ahem) Toronto, residents on Prince Edward Island are at the most risk of all provinces and territories when it comes to perishing in a vehicle crash.

The report, assembled from Transport Canada data taken down in the 2021 calendar year and presented by Preszler Injury Lawyers, suggests there are 10.5 traffic deaths per 100,000 population on Prince Edward Island. New Brunswick clocks in with 8.6 fatalities, and Nova Scotia rounds out the top three with 7.7 deaths per the same metric. The safest province, by this measure, is Ontario, at 3.8 per 100,000; while the territory of Nunavut leads the way overall with a 2.6 figure.

“Millions of Canadians hold a driving license, and many will use their cars regularly, whether for short trips, commutes or longer road trips,” said a spokesperson for the legal group that published this study. “Analyzing the number of fatalities and injuries due to car crashes in each province and territory can provide valuable insight into public road safety.”

It’s worth noting the total population on P.E.I. is just over 150,000 souls. This means if even two fewer people lose their lives on island roads in the span of a year, compared to the stats used to create this study, fatalities per 100,000 drops precipitously to 8.6, tied with New Brunswick. Just four fewer fatalities and the province very nearly falls out of the top five altogether. This is why we caution readers from gleaning infomation from incendiary headlines, especially ones stemming from a study assembled by bed-wetting litigators in darkest Hogtown.

That’s fatalities, but what about injuries in general? According to the same study, Manitoba leads the way in that statistic, with 545.5 injuries per 100,000 population. That’s a large leap over Newfoundland and Labrador, which checks in at 408.5; and Saskatchewan, at 388.2. As one of the most populous provinces, Ontario recorded 216.4 injuries per 100k population, the third lowest in the country, again highlighting a quirk of statistics in this study. Nunavut’s number was 40.9, again the lowest of all 13 provinces and territories.

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