Road safety in Barrie: collisions, deaths and what council has decided

Two related pages cover parts of this already: transportation (the 2023–2025 collision count, residents' top traffic concerns, and ward traffic calming) and speed cameras (the cameras' history, tickets and revenue).

How many fatal collisions happen on Barrie roads each year?

Some years can be checked against a second report. The 2020 report's own text gives "10 fatal collisions" for 2020, matching the 2022 report's table, and the 2023 report prints 3 "collision fatalities" for 2023, matching the 2025 report. The most recent three years, from the 2025 report: 3 in 2023, 5 in 2024 and 3 in 2025.

Sources: 2013 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Five-year collision comparison, 2009–2013: fatal motor vehicle collisions 3, 2, 0, 3, 1; personal injury collisions 334, 360, 425, 445, 457. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2014 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. "Four fatal accidents were investigated by Traffic" in 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2015 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. "The top 5 intersections for collisions in Barrie", with peak time, day and weather. No fatal-collision figure in the text. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2016 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Records Services: 3,589 motor vehicle collision reports entered into Niche. No fatal-collision figure in the text. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2017 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. 0 traffic fatalities in 2017; Police Records: 3,833 motor vehicle collision reports (restated as 3,841 in the 2018 report). Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2018 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Motor vehicle collisions 4,187 (2018) and 3,841 (2017); the Traffic Unit investigated 432 collisions "including four fatal collisions". Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2019 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Motor vehicle collisions 3,841 / 4,187 / 4,097 (2017–2019); 3 collision fatalities in 2019. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2020 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Motor vehicle collisions 2,876 in 2020; 783 accident reports recorded by Accident Support Services International; "10 fatal collisions". Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2022 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Traffic statistics 2020–2022 as reported by Accident Support Services International: fatal injury collisions 10, 4, 5; accident reports 783, 899, 908; non-fatal injury collisions 234, 246, 219. No police motor vehicle collision count. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2023 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. 5,858 motor vehicle accident reports, 3 collision fatalities and 234 collision non-fatal injuries in 2023; a Traffic Hot Spot initiative at high-collision intersections. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2025 Annual Report (for the Board), Barrie Police Service. Original document. Traffic Services table: 4,835 motor vehicle collisions in 2025, up 8.6% over two years; the 2024 report restates the 2023/24 figures under a differently-worded row label, a small discrepancy noted rather than resolved. Also carries the 2025 Community Safety & Satisfaction Survey's traffic-concern ranking (speeding 65%). Retrieved August 17, 2026.

How many collisions do police record each year?

The 4,835 collisions recorded in 2025 are the highest figure in the years charted here. The 2021 and 2022 gap cannot be filled from another table: for those years the reports print only the collision reporting centre's count of "motor vehicle accident reports", 899 in 2021 and 908 in 2022. That is a different measure: for 2020, the one year with both, the reporting centre's table gives 783 accident reports while the 2020 report's statistics table gives 2,876 motor vehicle collisions. Likewise, the 2023 report prints 5,858 "motor vehicle accident reports" for 2023, while the 2025 report gives 4,454 motor vehicle collisions for the same year. This page does not chart one of these counts in place of another.

The police service's statistics from May 2026 state that its boundary expanded starting January 1, 2026, under the Barrie–Oro-Medonte–Springwater Boundary Adjustment Act, 2025, and that "upcoming assessments will include these new areas". See annexation.

Sources: 2016 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Records Services: 3,589 motor vehicle collision reports entered into Niche. No fatal-collision figure in the text. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2017 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. 0 traffic fatalities in 2017; Police Records: 3,833 motor vehicle collision reports (restated as 3,841 in the 2018 report). Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2018 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Motor vehicle collisions 4,187 (2018) and 3,841 (2017); the Traffic Unit investigated 432 collisions "including four fatal collisions". Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2019 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Motor vehicle collisions 3,841 / 4,187 / 4,097 (2017–2019); 3 collision fatalities in 2019. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2020 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Motor vehicle collisions 2,876 in 2020; 783 accident reports recorded by Accident Support Services International; "10 fatal collisions". Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2021 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Traffic statistics from the accident reporting database only (899 accident reports, 246 non-fatal and 4 fatal injury collisions); no police motor vehicle collision count. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2022 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Traffic statistics 2020–2022 as reported by Accident Support Services International: fatal injury collisions 10, 4, 5; accident reports 783, 899, 908; non-fatal injury collisions 234, 246, 219. No police motor vehicle collision count. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2023 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. 5,858 motor vehicle accident reports, 3 collision fatalities and 234 collision non-fatal injuries in 2023; a Traffic Hot Spot initiative at high-collision intersections. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2024 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Motor vehicle collision reports 4,449 (2023) and 4,572 (2024), restated in the 2025 report as 4,454 and 4,581; states that more traffic tickets "contributed to a reduction in serious collisions requiring officer presence", without a figure. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2025 Annual Report (for the Board), Barrie Police Service. Original document. Traffic Services table: 4,835 motor vehicle collisions in 2025, up 8.6% over two years; the 2024 report restates the 2023/24 figures under a differently-worded row label, a small discrepancy noted rather than resolved. Also carries the 2025 Community Safety & Satisfaction Survey's traffic-concern ranking (speeding 65%). Retrieved August 17, 2026. Triannual Statistics, May 2026, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Covers January to May 2026. Boundary expansion starting January 1, 2026 under the Barrie–Oro-Medonte–Springwater Boundary Adjustment Act, 2025; "Upcoming assessments will include these new areas". Retrieved October 7, 2026.

How many collisions injure someone?

Recent figures cover four years. The collision reporting centre's figures, as the 2022 report prints them, give 234 non-fatal injury collisions in 2020, 246 in 2021 and 219 in 2022. The 2023 report prints 234 "collision non-fatal injuries". The 2024 and 2025 reports print no injury figure. An older table in the 2013 report gives personal injury collisions for 2009–2013 (334, 360, 425, 445 and 457); it is a different table, and this page does not join the two runs. None of the reports says how many of those hurt were walking, cycling or in a vehicle.

Sources: 2022 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Traffic statistics 2020–2022 as reported by Accident Support Services International: fatal injury collisions 10, 4, 5; accident reports 783, 899, 908; non-fatal injury collisions 234, 246, 219. No police motor vehicle collision count. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2023 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. 5,858 motor vehicle accident reports, 3 collision fatalities and 234 collision non-fatal injuries in 2023; a Traffic Hot Spot initiative at high-collision intersections. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2024 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Motor vehicle collision reports 4,449 (2023) and 4,572 (2024), restated in the 2025 report as 4,454 and 4,581; states that more traffic tickets "contributed to a reduction in serious collisions requiring officer presence", without a figure. Retrieved October 7, 2026. 2025 Annual Report (for the Board), Barrie Police Service. Original document. Traffic Services table: 4,835 motor vehicle collisions in 2025, up 8.6% over two years; the 2024 report restates the 2023/24 figures under a differently-worded row label, a small discrepancy noted rather than resolved. Also carries the 2025 Community Safety & Satisfaction Survey's traffic-concern ranking (speeding 65%). Retrieved August 17, 2026. 2013 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Five-year collision comparison, 2009–2013: fatal motor vehicle collisions 3, 2, 0, 3, 1; personal injury collisions 334, 360, 425, 445, 457. Retrieved October 7, 2026.

Where do collisions happen?

The only list of collision locations this site found is in the police service's 2015 annual report, under "The top 5 intersections for collisions in Barrie":

1. Essa Road and Tiffin Street
2. Bayfield Street and Coulter Street
3. Huronia Road and Mapleview Drive East
4. Bayfield Street and Livingstone Street
5. Bradford Street and Tiffin Street

The same page says 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. has "the highest rate of collision", Friday has the most collisions on average, and "82% of collisions occurred on a clear day". The list is from 2015 and has not been updated in any later report this site read. In 2023 the police service launched a "Traffic Hot Spot initiative to reduce serious collisions at high-collision intersections", but its report names no intersections.

City staff have shown collision analyses to council committees at least twice. In May 2015 the Manager of Traffic and Parking presented "2014 Collision Analysis CROMS", including "a map illustrating 2014 Collision Statistics". In September 2024 Traffic Services staff presented to the Community Safety Committee, with slides on "Traffic Operations - Collision History". The minutes list the slide topics but not the figures, and this site has not found either set of slides.

Sources: 2015 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. "The top 5 intersections for collisions in Barrie", with peak time, day and weather. No fatal-collision figure in the text. 2023 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. 5,858 motor vehicle accident reports, 3 collision fatalities and 234 collision non-fatal injuries in 2023; a Traffic Hot Spot initiative at high-collision intersections. Infrastructure, Investment and Development Services Committee Minutes, May 26, 2015, City of Barrie — Infrastructure, Investment and Development Services Committee, dated May 26, 2015. Original document. Staff presentation "2014 Collision Analysis CROMS" (Collision Reporting and Occurrence Management System); the minutes list only the slide topics. Community Safety Committee Minutes, September 25, 2024, City of Barrie — Community Safety Committee, dated September 25, 2024. Original document. Traffic and ROWA Services presentation including "Traffic Operations - Collision History"; the minutes list the slide topics only. All retrieved October 7, 2026.

What has council decided on road safety?

1. April 26, 2021: council adopts 21-G-087, directing staff to submit an intake form in the 2022 business plan and budget process "for the development of a Vision Zero Policy and a Traffic Calming Policy update". The same night, council adopts 21-G-094 as amended. It directs staff to review data on "near misses, collisions, injuries, and causes" on streets residents and council had raised, propose strategies "including, but not limited to reducing speeds limits", report back to General Committee, and survey residents on road safety and speed changes. The meeting's record.
2. March 26, 2025: council adopts 25-G-042, asking staff to investigate the feasibility of red-light cameras and identify the top locations for them (sponsor: Councillor S. Morales). The same meeting refers a staff report on "Design Principles to Support Livability, Municipal Operations and Road Safety" back to staff for further consultation (25-G-055).
3. May 7, 2025: a consultant, CIMA+, presents on the Traffic Calming Policy to the Community Safety Committee. This was a presentation, not a decision.
4. June 4, 2025: council adopts 25-G-129, recommended by General Committee on May 28: "That the City of Barrie Automated Speed Enforcement camera program become permanent." The underlying staff report is DEV023-25.
5. September 24, 2025: 16 weeks later, council votes 9–2 for 25-A-090. It directs staff "to move towards phasing out the Automated Speed Enforcement Program with an end date of December 31, 2025 unless otherwise directed by the Province of Ontario". It also authorizes negotiating red-light camera agreements funded from the speed-camera reserve. The vote, with every name.
6. November 14, 2025: the City removes its speed cameras "following provincial legislation banning ASE cameras in Ontario municipalities". The speed cameras page covers the provincial law and the program's tickets and revenue.
7. September 16, 2026: council passes a by-law letting red-light camera tickets go through the City's administrative penalty system once a program exists. The City Clerk told BarrieToday: "There is no timeline yet with (the) program".

Is there a Vision Zero policy? This site found none. It searched all 895 sets of council and committee minutes it holds, from January 7, 2013 to September 16, 2026. The phrase "Vision Zero" appears only in the three April 2021 sets that carried the request: City Building Committee on April 13, General Committee on April 19 and council on April 26. The phrases "road safety strategy", "road safety plan" and "road safety action plan" appear in none. This site has also not found the report that 21-G-094 asked staff to bring back.

Sources: City Building Committee Minutes, April 13, 2021, City of Barrie — City Building Committee, dated April 13, 2021. Original document. Recommends a budget intake form for the development of a Vision Zero Policy and a Traffic Calming Policy update. Retrieved October 7, 2026. General Committee Minutes, April 19, 2021, City of Barrie — General Committee, dated April 19, 2021. Original document. 21-G-087 (Vision Zero Policy and Traffic Calming Policy update intake form) and 21-G-094 (review of collision and injury data, speed limits). Retrieved October 7, 2026. City Council Minutes, April 26, 2021, City of Barrie — City Council, dated April 26, 2021. Original document. Adopts 21-G-087 (Section "B") and 21-G-094 as amended (Section "C"). Retrieved October 7, 2026. General Committee Minutes, March 19, 2025, City of Barrie — General Committee, dated March 19, 2025. Original document. 25-G-042 (red light camera feasibility and top locations) and 25-G-055 (road-safety design principles referred back to staff). Retrieved October 7, 2026. City Council Minutes, March 26, 2025, City of Barrie — City Council, dated March 26, 2025. Original document. Adopts 25-G-042 (Section "B") and 25-G-055 (Section "F"). Retrieved October 7, 2026. Community Safety Committee Minutes, May 7, 2025, City of Barrie — Community Safety Committee, dated May 7, 2025. Original document. Presentation by CIMA+ on the Traffic Calming Policy. Retrieved October 7, 2026. General Committee Minutes, May 28, 2025, City of Barrie — General Committee, dated May 28, 2025. Original document. 25-G-129: "That the City of Barrie Automated Speed Enforcement camera program become permanent. (DEV023-25)". Staff report DEV023-25 itself could not be downloaded. Retrieved October 7, 2026. City Council Minutes, June 4, 2025, City of Barrie — City Council, dated June 4, 2025. Original document. Adopts Section "B" of the General Committee Report of May 28, 2025, including 25-G-129. 25-A-065: after the March 28-30, 2025 ice storm, asks the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing to activate the Municipal Disaster Recovery Assistance Program. Retrieved October 7, 2026. City Council Minutes, September 24, 2025, City of Barrie — City Council, dated September 24, 2025. Original document. 25-A-090, recorded vote 9–2: phase out the Automated Speed Enforcement Program by December 31, 2025 unless the Province directs otherwise; negotiate red light camera agreements funded from the ASE Reserve. Retrieved October 7, 2026. Speed Limits & Enforcement (City program page, as of 2026-08-09), City of Barrie. Original document. The City's own record of the ended ASE program: authorization (motion 22-G-131), cameras live December 1, 2023, the end date of November 14, 2025, the no-refunds statement, and the full camera-location history with serial numbers and Certificates of Accuracy. A live page, updated in place. Retrieved August 9, 2026. Red-light cameras still on front burner for Barrie council, BarrieToday (Bob Bruton), dated September 17, 2026. Original document. Council passed a by-law on September 16, 2026 so that red-light charges can go through administrative penalties rather than the courts once a program exists; the City Clerk said there is no timeline yet for the program. Staff anticipated about four months to set up agreements before installation. Retrieved October 7, 2026.

What is not published?

• Pedestrian and cyclist casualties. None of the police annual reports from 2013 to 2025 breaks deaths or injuries down by pedestrians, cyclists and vehicle occupants, and this site found no other Barrie source that does.
• Where collisions happen, after 2015. The 2015 top-five list above is the only published list of locations this site found. The City's collision analyses for committees were not published with the minutes.
• Any City collision dataset. On October 7, 2026, the City's open data portal returned no results for "collision", "collisions" or "crash". A search for "road" returned nine datasets, so the search was working.
• Any measure of whether the speed cameras worked. This site found no published figures on speeds or collisions in the camera zones before and after the cameras. The staff report behind 25-G-129, DEV023-25, could not be read: on October 7, 2026 the City's meeting website refused this site's download of that meeting's agenda package. So this site cannot say whether the report contains such figures. The police service's 2024 report states that more traffic tickets "contributed to a reduction in serious collisions requiring officer presence", but gives no figure for that reduction.
• Missing years. No collision count for 2021 or 2022, no fatal-collision figure in the text of the 2015 or 2016 reports, and no injury figure for 2024 or 2025.

Sources: Open data portal search for collision datasets, City of Barrie open data portal (search run by barrievotes.ca). Original document. Searches for "collision", "collisions" and "crash" returned no datasets; "road" returned nine, showing the search worked. 2024 Annual Report, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Motor vehicle collision reports 4,449 (2023) and 4,572 (2024), restated in the 2025 report as 4,454 and 4,581; states that more traffic tickets "contributed to a reduction in serious collisions requiring officer presence", without a figure. General Committee Minutes, May 28, 2025, City of Barrie — General Committee, dated May 28, 2025. Original document. 25-G-129: "That the City of Barrie Automated Speed Enforcement camera program become permanent. (DEV023-25)". Staff report DEV023-25 itself could not be downloaded. All retrieved October 7, 2026.

What can council actually decide?

• Council decides: speed limits on City roads, within the range the Highway Traffic Act allows (40–80 km/h in 10 km/h steps); which road segments are community safety zones, where speeding fines are doubled; how much to spend on traffic calming (it approved an extra $500,000 in the interim, $50,000 per ward, from speed-camera money); design standards for its own roads; and whether to pursue a red-light camera program, and on what terms.
• Council does not decide: whether municipal speed cameras are allowed (the Province ended them in November 2025); the Highway Traffic Act's default 50 km/h limit and the range of limits a city may set; or whether Barrie may run red-light cameras. Council wrote to the provincial transportation minister in November 2025 asking that Barrie be approved to install and run them, as BarrieToday reported. The collision figures on this page are kept by the police service and its collision reporting centre, not by the City.

Sources: Speed Limits & Enforcement (City program page, as of 2026-08-09), City of Barrie. Original document. The City's own record of the ended ASE program: authorization (motion 22-G-131), cameras live December 1, 2023, the end date of November 14, 2025, the no-refunds statement, and the full camera-location history with serial numbers and Certificates of Accuracy. A live page, updated in place. Retrieved August 9, 2026. City Council Minutes, March 26, 2025, City of Barrie — City Council, dated March 26, 2025. Original document. Adopts 25-G-042 (Section "B") and 25-G-055 (Section "F"). Retrieved October 7, 2026. City Council Minutes, September 24, 2025, City of Barrie — City Council, dated September 24, 2025. Original document. 25-A-090, recorded vote 9–2: phase out the Automated Speed Enforcement Program by December 31, 2025 unless the Province directs otherwise; negotiate red light camera agreements funded from the ASE Reserve. Retrieved October 7, 2026. Red-light cameras still on front burner for Barrie council, BarrieToday (Bob Bruton), dated September 17, 2026. Original document. Council passed a by-law on September 16, 2026 so that red-light charges can go through administrative penalties rather than the courts once a program exists; the City Clerk said there is no timeline yet for the program. Staff anticipated about four months to set up agreements before installation. Retrieved October 7, 2026.