According to ICBC, over a five-year period Victoria motorists experienced hundreds of casualty crashes – crashes resulting in injury or fatality – and far more crashes involving just property damage.
Casualty crashes, City of Victoria, 2017-21
Data and map: ICBC Statistics
You can access the data yourself at https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/icbc/viz/VancouverIslandCrashes/VIDashboard.
The app allows you to zoom in on an area, or even one street. Below is Cook St, both casualty and property damage crashes.
All crashes, Cook St, 2017-21
The ICBC data is a reminder that our roads are not 100% safe, by any stretch.
The City of Victoria needs to pursue Vision Zero and mean it.