As summer time approaches, the Quebec department of the Canadian Car Affiliation (CAA-Quebec) is urging drivers to be cautious, respecting velocity limits and displaying courtesy behind the wheel. Final summer time, 100 folks misplaced their lives on the province’s roads, practically 20 greater than projected for 2024.
The director of the CAA-Quebec Basis, André Durocher, factors out that the three predominant components resulting in a street accident stay the identical: velocity, alcohol and distractions.
“Within the overwhelming majority of circumstances, these stay conditions which are avoidable,” Duorcher informed The Canadian Press.
In response to him, the interval between the nationwide vacation and Labour Day stays the deadliest on account of a number of components together with the temperature and the a number of festivities through the summer time.
Confronted with the reluctance of some Quebecers to journey to the US for his or her holidays, Durocher expects to see extra drivers on the province’s roads this summer time. A survey performed by CAA-Quebec exhibits that 57 per cent of Quebecers intend to spend the summer time in Quebec this yr.
In the summertime of 2024, 83 folks have been victims of deadly accidents, in comparison with 93 victims in 2023. Whereas the summer time of 2025 was the deadliest lately, Durocher hopes that measures will probably be taken if the variety of victims continues to extend this yr.
“Final yr was fairly catastrophic, with deaths occurring proper from the beginning of the development holidays,” he added. “We’ll see if that is an exception or a pattern.”
Sure areas are overrepresented within the variety of folks killed on Quebec roads through the summer time. This era in 2025 was the deadliest, significantly on the North Shore, with 60 per cent of the area’s deaths, and in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, with 43 per cent of the annual deaths on these roads.
André Durocher reminds us, nonetheless, that sure behaviors may be adopted to keep away from any tragedy. He encourages motorists, amongst different issues, to plan their journeys and actions to keep away from psychological overload, to make sure they’ve a chosen driver in case of fatigue or substance use, and likewise to keep away from dashing and share the street courteously with different customers.
In response to the street security report of the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) for the entire of 2025, 371 folks, of all forms of customers mixed, have been killed on the province’s roads, a lower of two.1 per cent in comparison with 2024.
Occupants of automobiles and light-weight vehicles stay the biggest class of victims, with 202 fatalities. The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) additionally recorded a virtually 30 per cent enhance in motorcyclist deaths final yr in comparison with 2024, with 62 deaths in comparison with 48.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
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