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Ontario Model
• Collisions where one or more of the vehicles involved was a large truck 1 represent
7% of all collisions, 18% of fatal collisions and 15% ($2.7 billion) of the social
costs of collision in Ontario in 2004.
• Freeway collisions (those occurring on 400 series highways) compared to the
other sub-groups of collision are most similar to the typical collision in Ontario.
They represent 11% of all, 12% of fatal, 12% of injury, and 11% of PDO
collisions. They also represent 14% ($2.4 billion) of the social costs of collision
in Ontario in 2004.
Government costs related to freeway collisions were $51 million in 2004. These
represent a sub-set of costs (hospital/health care, police, courts, fire, and ambulance)
incurred by government.
3. Canadian jurisdictions
Social costs of the 613,000 motor vehicle collisions occurring in Canadian
jurisdictions in 2004 were $62.7 billion. By type of collision, social costs were $39.0
billion (62%), $20.3 billion (32%), and $3.4 billion (5%) for fatal, injury and PDO
collisions respectively. Social costs and the per cent (in brackets) by jurisdiction were:
• Newfoundland and Labrador — $0.9 billion (1.4%).
• Prince Edward Island — $0.5 billion (0.8%).
• Nova Scotia — $1.7 billion (2.8%).
• New Brunswick — $1.4 billion (2.3%).
• Quebec — $17.4 billion (27.9%).
• Ontario — $17.9 billion (28.6%).
• Manitoba — $2.2 billion (3.5%).
• Saskatchewan — $2.4 billion (3.9%).
• Alberta — $9.1 billion (14.5%).
• British Columbia — $8.8 billion (14.1%).
• Yukon — $0.1 billion (0.2%).
• Northwest Territories — $0.06 billion (0.1%).
• Nunavut — $0.02 billion (0.0%).
1
Large truck is defined according to the following selected values under “Vehicle Type” in the MTO
Accident Database System (ADS) : 8 truck—open (flatbed); 9 truck—closed (box, van); 10 truck—tank;
11 dump truck; 12 truck—car carrier; 13 truck— tractor; and 98 truck—other (cement mixer, crane, etc.)
TNS Canadian Facts, Social and Policy Research 5