Peterborough Police Service Release Top 10 Collision Intersections of 2021

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With the release of the Peterborough Police Service’s (PPS) annual report of 2021, the top 10 intersections with the most collisions have been listed on Monday.

The intersection of Water Street and Parkhill Road is listed as Peterborough’s seventh highest for collisions. Four intersections on Parkhill Road are within the top 10. Photo by Luke Best.

The following is the top 10 list of collision intersections in Peterborough from most frequent to least:

  1. Clonsilla Avenue & The Parkway

  2. Monaghan Road & Parkhill Road West

  3. Lansdowne Street & The Parkway

  4. Parkhill Road West & Reid Street

  5. Lansdowne Street & Monaghan Road

  6. George Street North & Parkhill Road West

  7. Parkhill Road West & Water Street

  8. Armour Road & Parkhill Road East

  9. Ashburnham Drive & Lansdowne Street East

  10. Rubidge Street & Sherbrooke Street

There was a four per cent increase in collisions investigated from 1,800 in 2020 to 1,872 for 2021. There were 61 fewer collisions of damage over $2,000 with 674. Additionally, there were 30 less collisions in damage under $2,000 with 783 compared to 2020.

Pedestrian and cyclist injuries saw an increase from 54 in 2020 (40 pedestrians and 14 cyclists) to 68 last year.

Last year saw a two per cent overall increase in the amount of Highway Traffic Act (HTA) Provincial Offence Notices (PONS) issued according to PPS. This number has fluctuated over the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

PPS is focusing on continuing to implement e-ticketing, training more officers in reconstruction and as motorcycle operators.

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Police To Target The Top 10 Intersections For Collisions In Peterborough As Part Of "Project Top 10"

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From a Peterborough Lakefield Community Police Service Media Release today...

Over the past several years, the traffic unit has conducted Project Lansdowne.
This project was initiated as Lansdowne St had 6 intersections in the top 10 for the for the most collisions.
This remained the same for 2008 and 2009.
In 2010 the results of the project began to take effect as Lansdowne St. had only 3 intersections in the top 10 for the most collisions.
 
Due to the success of Project Lansdowne it will be expanded in 2011 to target all the high collision intersections throughout the city.
It will be called Project "Top 10"
It will follow the same concept and have a plainclothes officer standing at these intersections and calling out offences to uniform officers waiting in the area.
 
The statistics for 2010 showed the following intersections were in the Top 10 for most number of collisions.
1 Clonsilla and Sherbrooke
2 Monaghan and Lansdowne
3 Clonsilla and Goodfellow
4 Water and Parkhill
5 Parkway and Lansdowne
6 High and Lansdowne
7 Parkhill and George
8 Rubidge and King
9 Chemong and Towerhill
10 Armour and Parkhill.
 
The Traffic unit kicked off Project "Top 10" on May 30th.
 
Three intersections were targeted.
Monaghan and Lansdowne
Clonsilla and Goodfellow
Parkway and Lansdowne.
 
Officers will not only be looking for vehicles running amber and red lights this year but will also be targeting seatbelts and drivers using cell phones.
 
18 charges were laid in the first day.
1 red light
5 amber lights
3 seatbelts
3 cell phones
6 other HTA charges.
 
This project will continue on various dates throughout the summer.
 
Fines for noted offences are:
Red light $325.00
Amber light $180.00
Seatbelt $240.00
Cell Phone $155.00

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