{"id":950705,"date":"2026-10-29T14:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950705\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:02:17","slug":"city-leaders-call-road-safety-news-conference-during-deadly-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950705\/","title":{"rendered":"City leaders call road safety news conference during deadly year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More people have died on Ottawa’s roads than normal, including a recent surge of deaths in the past two months. <\/p>\n

City leaders such as the mayor and police chief are speaking about road safety at 11 a.m. ET Thursday. <\/p>\n

CBC News will carry the news conference live in this story.<\/p>\n

There have been 32 traffic-related deaths in 23 collisions so far this year, according to Ottawa police statistics shared last week. A normal year for Ottawa has recently had 20 to 25.<\/p>\n

More pedestrians have been killed than normal.<\/p>\n

The number of total collisions is more in line with the city’s average, police said.<\/p>\n

The steep increase in deaths is the result of several factors, including a rising number of stunt drivers and impaired drivers, said Sgt. Josh Callaghan, head of Ottawa police\u2019s road safety unit, last week,<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re seeing an increase in distracted driving on our roadways, speeds increasing on our roadways and just in general people [showing] a lack of care for one another,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

According to Ottawa Safety Council team lead Kim Kimbell, safe driving habits have deteriorated over time, with many people caring less about the rules of the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-950705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}