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Description
Ontario Road Safety Annual Report (ORSAR) is a mandated annual compilation of motor vehicle collision statistics from police reports. The report is organized into seven chapters covering fatalities, injuries, collision types, locations, vehicle types, special vehicles, and conviction data. It is published by the Government of Ontario and was last updated on April 17, 2026.
Use Cases
Analyze trends in traffic fatalities and injuries based on severity and road user characteristics mentioned in Chapter 2.
Profile collision types and patterns on Ontario roads based on the data described in Chapter 3.
Map collision locations and municipal breakdowns based on the geographic data described in Chapter 4.
Examine involvement rates of specific vehicle types like motorcycles and trucks based on the data described in Chapters 5 and 6.
Study correlations between convictions and collisions based on the legal data described in Chapter 7.
Strengths
Data is organized into seven distinct thematic chapters covering multiple aspects of road safety.
The primary source is collision reports provided by police services, suggesting official data collection.
The dataset is updated annually as mandated by the Highway Traffic Act.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to Ontario-specific reporting.
Provenance
Source
Government of Ontario
Collection Method
Collision reports provided by police services.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-17 15:43:26.995889; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Ontario, Canada
Data is provided in ZIP and XLSX formats, requiring compatible software for analysis.