Circumstances

Speed decides a crash's outcome more than anything. Over 2021–2025, streets with a 50 km/h limit saw the most injury crashes (7,757), with 2.7 deaths per 100 crashes. Roads with a 90 km/h limit had 3.8 times fewer crashes (2,055), but 13.0 deaths per 100.

City streets and local roads saw 77% of all injury crashes, while on main roads there were 13.2 deaths per 100 crashes — 4.6 times the city rate. Single-vehicle crashes (running off the road, rollovers, hitting an obstacle) saw 5.6 deaths per 100, collisions 4.4: they are fatal more often.

Pedestrians were hit 1,519 times on crossings and 1,909 times off them, but off a crossing the outcome is worse: 6.3 deaths per 100 such crashes, against 3.0 on a crossing.

Analysis: Pedestrians in the dark: why pedestrian deaths are rising again