As police prepare for the Labour Day weekend, the Ontario Provincial Police has said that in its jurisdictions, car crashes caused by distracted driving have come to outnumber those caused by intoxication or speeding.
Police said that so far in 2017, 4,700 crashes were due to speeding, and 1,158 were due to inebriated drivers.
According to police, distracted drivers, on the other hand, were to blame for 6,390 collisions.
And distracted driving appears to be on the rise. Police say that as of Aug. 28, 2017, 47 people had died because of distracted driving, which is a 16 per cent increase from 39 deaths by the same date in 2016.
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