Toronto recorded fewest traffic-related deaths in a decade in 2025: city data | CBC News

"Last year, Toronto had the fewest traffic-related deaths it's recorded in a decade, just as a major road safety program has been removed from the city. The latest city data shows 39 people died on Toronto's roads in 2025, even fewer than in 2020, when COVID-19 pandemic restrictions kept the streets far emptier than usual. There were 19 pedestrians deaths recorded, 12 motorists, five motorcyclists, two cyclists and one micromobility death, which includes people who ride electric bikes, e-mopeds and e-scooters."

"That adds up to half the total traffic deaths recorded a decade ago, when numbers hit a 10-year high. In 2016, 78 people over half of them pedestrians died in traffic incidents on Toronto's streets, according to city data. Toronto's Vision Zero road safety strategy was put in place after a 10-year record of traffic deaths were recorded in the city in 2016. (Meagan Fitzpatrick/CBC) That prompted the City of Toronto to introduce its Vision Zero strategy with the goal of eliminating traffic-related deaths."

"Vision Zero's projects manager says the strategy had it's biggest budget yet in 2025 and was able to expand. We had record-breaking years for several of our programs in terms of how big they were, said Sheyda Saneinejad. So I don't think there's a coincidence that all that came together to get us [those] numbers."

"Record low comes as speed cams removed But one of those expanded programs is now gone. The city's speed cameras, which doubled in number from 75 to 150 in 2025, were taken down in the fall under new provincial legislation. That's despite CAA studies that found evidence they reduced speeding and most Ontarians wanted them in place."

Toronto recorded 39 traffic-related deaths in 2025, the lowest total in a decade. Fatalities included 19 pedestrians, 12 motorists, five motorcyclists, two cyclists and one micromobility death. The 2025 total is about half the 78 deaths in 2016, when over half of fatalities were pedestrians. Vision Zero was introduced after 2016 and used street redesigns, speed cameras and red-light cameras to eliminate traffic deaths. Vision Zero had its largest budget and expanded programs in 2025, and the projects manager linked that expansion to lower deaths. Despite evidence from CAA studies and public support, the city's speed cameras — doubled to 150 in 2025 — were removed under new provincial legislation.

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