Ontario Traffic Offences Under the Criminal Code

Traffic-related offences under the Criminal Code include impaired driving, dangerous driving, failure to provide a blood sample, and failure to stop or remain. This data set is no longer compiled by the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Ontario. The data can be accessed from Statistics Canada.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in impaired driving offences based on the description of criminal traffic violations.
• Study patterns of dangerous driving incidents based on the listed offence categories.
• Assess compliance with traffic laws based on data about failure to stop or remain offences.

Strengths

• Data is associated with the Government of Ontario, a credible source.
• License is OGL-CA-2.0, indicating open government terms.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:40:40.478475; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ontario, Canada