St. Thomas has the lowest rate of car crashes in all of Ontario, according to Allstate Insurance Company of Canada's inaugural Ontario Safe Driving Study.

Thornhill, Ajax, Maple, Brampton and Bolton make up the bottom five communities with the highest crash rates.

Communities in the Greater Toronto Area ranked 40 through 49 out of the 49 communities reviewed for the study. St. Thomas ranks as the safest driving community with an averagenumber of collision claims of 2.5/100 cars, a 25 percent improvement from 2003-2006.


Regional Breakdown

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                        2006-2009 Number of

                          Collision Claims       2006-2009      (2003-2006

    Region                   /100 cars            Ranking         Ranking)

 

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    North                       3.5                  1              (1)

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    Central                     3.9                  2              (2)

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    Southwest                   4.3                  3              (4)

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    East                        4.5                  4              (3)

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    GTA                         5.5                  5              (5)

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Community Breakdown

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                                             2006-2009

                                             Number of

                                 Population  Collision

                                   (2006      Claims    2006-2009 (2003-2006

    Community           Region     Census)   /100 cars   Ranking  Ranking)*

 

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    St. Thomas        Southwest      36,110     2.5         1         (9)

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    Belleville             East      48,821     2.6         2         (1)

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    Chatham           Southwest     108,177     3.4         3        (14)

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    Welland           Southwest      50,331     3.4         4         (2)

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    Sudbury               North     157,857     3.6         5         (6)

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    North Bay             North      53,966     3.7         6        (15)

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    Amherstburg       Southwest      21,748     3.7         7         (3)

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    Thunder Bay           North     109,140     3.7         8        (16)

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    Sault Ste. Marie      North      74,948     3.7         9        (10)

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    Keswick                 GTA      21,000     3.8        10         (5)

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    St. Catharines    Southwest     131,989     3.8        11        (12)

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    Innisfil                GTA      31,175     3.9        12        (21)

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    Bowmanville             GTA      31,830     3.9        13         (7)

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    Bradford                GTA      24,039     4.0        14        (18)

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    Kingston               East     117,207     4.0        15        (11)

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    Niagara Falls     Southwest      82,181     4.0        16        (23)

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    Sarnia            Southwest      71,419     4.0        17        (13)

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    Peterborough        Central      74,898     4.1        18        (17)

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    Windsor           Southwest     216,473     4.3        19        (29)

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    Cornwall               East      45,965     4.3        20         (4)

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    Brantford         Southwest      90,192     4.3        21        (22)

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    Newmarket               GTA      74,295     4.5        22        (20)

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    Cambridge         Southwest     120,371     4.5        23        (35)

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    Georgetown              GTA     120,371     4.5        24         (8)

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    Kitchener         Southwest     204,668     4.7        25        (25)

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    Guelph            Southwest     114,943     4.8        26        (19)

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    Burlington              GTA     164,415     4.9        27        (26)

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    Hamilton          Southwest     504,559     5.1        28        (30)

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    Stouffville             GTA      24,390     5.1        29        (32)

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    Barrie              Central     128,430     5.3        30        (39)

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    Markham                 GTA     261,573     5.3        31        (40)

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    Aurora                  GTA      47,629     5.4        32        (28)

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    Ottawa                 East     812,129     5.4        33        (31)

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    Orillia             Central      30,259     5.4        34        (24)

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    London            Southwest     352,395     5.5        35        (33)

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