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Table 1
Police-reported impaired driving incidents, by type of offence and province or territory, 2019

Table 1
Police-reported impaired driving incidents, by type of offence and province or territory, 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported impaired driving incidents. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Impaired driving causing death, Impaired driving causing bodily harm, Impaired operation of a vehicle, Failure or refusal to comply, Low blood drug concentration and All impaired driving violations, calculated using number, rate and % variation from 2018 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory	Impaired driving causing death^{Table 1 Note 1}		Impaired driving causing bodily harm^{Table 1 Note 2}		Impaired operation of a vehicle		Failure or refusal to comply^{Table 1 Note 3}		Low blood drug concentration		All impaired driving violations
Province or territory	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate	% variation from 2018
Newfoundland and Labrador	0	0.0	9	1.7	2,168	415.7	68	13.0	0	0.0	2,245	430.5	95
Prince Edward Island	0	0.0	4	2.5	995	634.0	13	8.3	0	0.0	1,012	644.8	56
Nova Scotia	4	0.4	14	1.4	3,576	368.1	82	8.4	3	0.3	3,679	378.7	33
New Brunswick	5	0.6	10	1.3	2,719	350.0	112	14.4	1	0.1	2,847	366.5	53
Quebec	8	0.1	184	2.2	13,993	164.9	705	8.3	10	0.1	14,900	175.6	6
Ontario	13	0.1	70	0.5	14,272	98.0	826	5.7	1	0.0	15,182	104.2	5
Manitoba	4	0.3	35	2.6	4,038	294.9	162	11.8	0	0.0	4,239	309.5	25
Saskatchewan	7	0.6	50	4.3	6,097	519.1	174	14.8	0	0.0	6,328	538.8	1
Alberta	12	0.3	44	1.0	13,207	302.1	960	22.0	5	0.1	14,228	325.5	13
British Columbia	10	0.2	57	1.1	16,819	331.6	1,185	23.4	0	0.0	18,071	356.3	45
Yukon	2	4.9	0	0.0	824	2,016.9	19	46.5	0	0.0	845	2,068.3	55
Northwest Territories	1	2.2	2	4.5	1,389	3,098.6	15	33.5	0	0.0	1,407	3,138.8	36
Nunavut	0	0.0	4	10.3	682	1,758.6	4	10.3	0	0.0	690	1,779.3	62
Canada	66	0.2	483	1.3	80,779	214.9	4,325	11.5	20	0.1	85,673	227.9	19
Note 1 Includes failure or refusal to comply in relation to an accident that caused the death of another person (section 320.15(3) of the Criminal Code). Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes failure or refusal to comply in relation to an accident that caused bodily harm to another person (section 320.15(2) of the Criminal Code). Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes failure or refusal to comply (section 320.15(1) of the Criminal Code). Return to note 3 referrer Note: The different ways in which police services deal with traffic violations can impact police-reported statistics. Counts are based on the most serious offence in the incident. One incident can involve more than one traffic violation under the Criminal Code. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based upon July 1^st estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2021-07-15