The following B.C. car accident statistics are for the year 2005 and were sourced from the “Traffic Collision Statistics: Police-attended Injury and Fatal Collisions British Columbia 2005″ prepared by ICBC. The full report can be viewed at ICBC Web site located at icbc.com/library/research_papers/traffic/index.asp
# of accidents and injuries
# of reported accidents: 50,573
# of accidents resulting in an injury claim: 20,370
# of injury claims: 28,752
# fatal collisions: 460
# of accidents police attended: 44,809
# of actively BC licenced drivers: 2,912,935
# of injured / killed cyclists: 1,045 (3.8%) / 7 (1.5%)
# of injured / killed pedestrians: 1,857 (6.8%) / 68 (14.8%)
# of injured / killed motorcyclists: 1,074 (3.9%) / 47 (10.3%)
Timing
Month with the highest casualty count: December
Month with the lowest casualty count: February
Day with highest casualty count: Friday
Day with lowest casualty count: Sunday
Accident contributing factors
Top 5 contributing factors (%) in injury collisions (some accidents have multiple contributing factors – all were included and not weighted):
- Driver inattentive 34.7%
- Speeding 20.2%
- Driver error / confusion 18.4%
- Failing to yield to the right-of-way 17.2%
- Alcohol 11.7%
# of injuries by type (not a complete list of injury types)
Whiplash: 8,625
Bruising: 7,352
Abrasion: 2,973
Laceration: 2,013
Fracture: 1,760
Bleeding: 1,461
Concussion: 657
Dislocation: 256
Amputations: 40
Burns: 60
Collision types
71.7% of collisions involved more than one vehicle (multi-vehicle accidents). The percentage of types of multi-vehicle accidents are as follows:
1. Rear-end: 28.4%
2. right angle (T-bone style): 21.5%
3. left turn into oncoming traffic: 12.7%
Alcohol related collisions
# of police-attended injury collisions with alcohol involved: 2,189 (11.3%)
# of fatalities involving alcohol: 110 (27.1%)
