Originally Posted By: Johnny2Bad
The turning point here was about five years ago. That was the year that accidents overall, and the number of fatalities due to cellular texting, exceeded the same categories for Impaired Driving. The rates for accidents involving texting have risen in the meantime, although they are stabilizing now due to distracted driving legislation, currently enacted in all ten provinces and three Territories in Canada.
That data was limited to proven conditions; in other words the time of the accident from in-car telemetry could be positively correlated to cellular data transmission records.
There are many conditions where they could not positively prove texting was occouring during the accident timeframe. In other words, the accident rate due to texting is under-reported.
Similarly, DIY was positively proven via blood tests or breath tests, with instances of leaving the scene not included.
It should be noted that all DUI statistics reported by Safety or Insurance entities (whether here in Canada or anywhere in the US, EU, UK, etc) include all accidents involving any injury to any party.
That would include, for example, a vehicle driven by a sober operator hitting a drunk pedestrian who entered the roadway outside of a pedestrian crossing.
True, plus the millennial generation came of driving age.