Pedestrian Injuries

Motor vehicle collisions (MVC's) refer to any crashes involving motorized vehicles. This includes traffic collisions, those that occur on public streets and highways, and non-traffic collisions, which occur elsewhere, such as off-road. Collisions can include one or more motor vehicles that result in injury or death to the driver, passengers, pedestrians or those riding bicycles.

This HealthSTATS page provides data on pedestrian injuries.

From 2003-07, there were 995 Emergency Room (ER) visits for pedestrian injuries in Simcoe Muskoka residents. Males make up 59% of the visits and 40% of the visits were individuals between 10 to 24 years. Fifty per cent of ER visits were due to pedestrians injured in a traffic collision with a car, pick-up truck or van. The ER visit rate was significantly lower compared to Ontario.  The ER data come from the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS).

Between 2003-07, there were 153 hospitalizations for pedestrian injuries in Simcoe Muskoka residents.  Pedestrian injury hospitalizations occurred almost equally among both sexes as well as across all age groups. Simcoe Muskoka’s hospitalization rate was significantly lower than Ontario.  The hospitalization data come from the Discharage Abstract Database (DAD).

Between 2000-04, 24 residents died from pedestrian injuries. Almost two-thirds (71%) occurred among males. Twelve pedestrians were 65 years or older.  The death data come from the Vital Statistics database for Ontario.