Montreal Road Collisions Since 2012 With Injury Severity

Road collisions is a dataset from the Government and Municipalities of Québec listing police-reported motor vehicle collisions on Montreal's municipal road network since 2012. It includes descriptive, contextual, and location data, with severity expressed in deaths, serious injuries, minor injuries, and property damage only. The dataset is a subset of Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) data, specifically filtered for Montreal territory and excluding highway incidents.

Use Cases

• Analyze collision severity trends over time using the deaths, serious injuries, and minor injuries classifications.
• Map high-risk locations for property damage only incidents using the compiled geolocation data.
• Compare collision patterns on the municipal road network before and after the 2023 SAAQ data revision for the period 2012-2021.

Strengths

• Covers collisions reported since 2012, providing over a decade of temporal data.
• Includes collisions with property damage only under $2,000 recorded by the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), expanding scope beyond major incidents.
• Data is geolocated by the City for spatial analysis purposes.

Limitations

• Excludes collisions that occurred on the highway network, limiting analysis to municipal roads.
• Data for 2012-2021 differs from the source SAAQ platform after a December 2023 revision, creating potential inconsistency.
• Rows, columns, and sample data are unknown, preventing assessment of dataset scale and structure.

Provenance

Source

Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ), filtered and compiled by the City of Montreal.

Collection Method

Police reports from the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) for collisions involving motor vehicles.

Time Range

Since 2012.

Freshness

Last updated March 25, 2026.

Geography

Territory of Montreal, excluding highway network.