Accident Benefit Blog

July 27, 2010, Kitchener, Ontario

Posted by: Robert Deutschmann, Personal Injury Lawyer

From the Waterloo Region Record:

1 - ranking of car collisions among causes of death for 15 to 25 year olds in Canada;

235 - Ontario drivers 21 and under killed in drinking and driving crashes in the 10 years leading up to 2006;

400 - Young people who die each year in Canada from crashes, almost half related to impaired driving;

4 - Deaths every day, due to impaired driving in Canada.  There are 200 injuries daily.

33 - Percent of deaths and injuries blamed on drivers aged 15 to 25 - about 13 per cent of the population

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