It's been a deadly summer for motorists.
Ten people died in clashes last week alone.
This week, the Ontario Police Highway Safety Division released a video to motorists on Twitter in an attempt to prevent carnage on our roads .
Sergeant OPP. Kelly Schmidt appears in the video as police explain the spike in traffic deaths last year.
As Schmidt notes in the video, the problem is that behaviors leading to injury and death are on the rise across the board. Impaired driving, distracted driving, speeding, and not wearing a seatbelt.
Ugly statistics include his 206 deaths on the road. Another he died 17 in off-road vehicles (6 without helmets) and 17 in the water (12 of him not wearing lifejackets).
This year again he has 27 drownings, nine of which have already occurred in his August.
Some say road conditions started to deteriorate during his COVID-his lockdown at the beginning of Spring 2020.
The roads were nearly empty as people were forced to take refuge in their homes, and many drivers took advantage of it to do stupid things at high speeds.
Stunt driving made an amazing jump.
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But even now that life and traffic patterns have returned to normal, risky behavior on the road has not decreased.
"No way," said Schmidt, summarizing the current situation. “See our post on how drivers behave in the field. , cyclists, pedestrians and sailors,” he added.
And Schmidt doesn't think it will stop anytime soon.
"He has two weeks left in August and the outside temperature is 30 degrees for him," he said.
Schmidt doesn't even risk speculating as to why this self-destructive behavior on the street is happening. No. Our officers are on patrol and we are being called to tragedy after tragedy.
"We are doing stunt driving in residential areas, side streets and industrial areas. The idea is 'TO TAKEOVER.'"
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He sees a motorcycle crash on the highway. talked about 427 these days.
No one was killed, Schmidt said.
"It's also a life-altering injury," he said. "You could spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair or suffer a brain injury that requires lifelong care."
"All first responders have experienced this, and witnesses We're recording what's going on with our dashcams, and more people than ever before are watching this in real time," he added.
That doesn't stop you from doing dangerous things on the road.
"People don't expect it to happen to them," Schmidt said.
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