Credits
Texts by Laurianne Croteau. Design by Cédric Gagnon. Development by Olivia Gélinas and Antoine Noreau.
Photography by Valerian Mazataud and Jacques Nadeau
Methodology
The duty examined the 204,010 collisions involving at least one motor vehicle from 2012 to 2020 that occurred on the road network in the agglomeration of Montreal (highways are not included). Only fatal (at least one victim died within 30 days of the accident) and serious (at least one injured victim requiring hospitalization) collisions involving at least one pedestrian or cyclist were analyzed (1123 accidents).
Since these data are taken from reports from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal, they contain certain human errors; some accidents were therefore classified as car-to-car when a cyclist was involved, or were incorrectly geolocated. If you see any error, write to us.
The volume of pedestrians, cyclists and motorists was not taken into account: it would be ill advised to cause a proportion of deaths per hundred passages since the danger is itself linked to the number of road users. . It remains important to note that more collisions occur on streets equipped with cycle lanes, even when they are well configured, since this is where the majority of cyclists are.