With summer now in full swing and the Canada Day weekend coming up, the OPP will be out on roads, waterways and trails, ensuring Ontario citizens and visitors are wearing safety equipment that is critical to saving their lives.
Over the past five years, hundreds of people of all ages have died in OPP-investigated traffic/marine incidents in which failure to wear safety equipment was a primary cause or contributing factor in their death.
From 2018-2022 in OPP jurisdictions, the number of drivers/passengers killed in collisions who did not wear a seatbelt was 279, 114 boaters/paddlers were killed in marine incidents who did not wear a lifejacket.
The number of drivers/passengers killed in off-road vehicle incidents who did not wear a helmet was 54, and there were 19 motorcyclists killed in motorcycle incidents who did not wear a helmet.
