As officers gear up for their Operation Safe Trucking campaign, the Ontario Provincial Police is reporting 4,816 Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) collisions so far this year.
Forty-six of the collisions resulted in fatalities, with two separate incidents taking the lives of five people. By this time last year, the OPP had responded to 4,666 CMV collisions, 39 of which were fatal.
OPP data analytics also reveal that 3,857 of the total number of CMV incidents this year were multi-vehicle collisions, in contrast to 959 incidents that involved a single vehicle.
CMV-related crashes account for 11% of the 42,200 collisions on OPP-patrolled roads so far this year and have been linked to 30% of the fatal crashes.
The OPP cautions that the data should not be interpreted as commercial drivers being at fault in each of the collisions, and that the responsibility also falls on drivers of other vehicles involved in the incidents.
