Traffic safety remains a critical public health and economic challenge across British Columbia. The rolling model below provides a live, data-driven projection of cumulative road safety outcomes and transport incidents across the province since January 1, 2026:
Have you witnessed dangerous, aggressive or careless driving and wondered whether reporting it to police would accomplish anything? The answer is yes, but the success of your complaint depends largely on the information you can provide and how involved you are willing to become in the investigation.
Knowing which way to turn your wheels when parking on a hill is a driving skill that many people learn for their road test and then rarely think about again. Turning your wheels the wrong way can allow a vehicle to roll into traffic if the parking brake isn't applied properly or a mechanical failure occurs. Fortunately, there are only three simple rules to remember when parking on a hill in British Columbia.
A discussion in a local community group recently caught my attention because it illustrated how easily unsafe driving behaviour can become normalized. A resident described a young rider leaving a community centre parking lot on an unlicensed dirt bike, travelling along a public road, performing wheelies at high speed, and then disappearing onto a logging road.
Have you ever wondered why parking lots seem to force drivers and pedestrians into the same space? At many shopping centres, every customer must walk across the path of moving vehicles to reach the entrance, even though this appears to create unnecessary conflict.
Question: Friends of my parents were returning from Vancouver to Kelowna after a hockey tournament when they were stopped for speeding. They were travelling at 124 km/h in an 80 km/h zone—44 km/h over the posted speed limit.
A BC Supreme Court decision explains how drivers must safely turn across a dedicated bike lane and why both the driver and cyclist were found partly responsible for the collision.
Finding an open can of beer or an uncorked bottle of wine in a vehicle often leads people to ask the same question: "If the driver hasn't been drinking, what's the problem?"
When you hear a siren or see the flashing red lights of an emergency vehicle, it's important to react calmly and predictably. Although most drivers know they should pull over, many are uncertain about exactly where to stop or whether they should continue driving slowly along the shoulder.
The article that I wrote two weeks ago concerning solving your own road safety problems prompted an inquiry from the East Kootenays. The writer complained that a section of Highway 31A leaving the town of New Denver was marked with a 50 zone ends speed sign and the next kilometre or so of the road had many driveways, some intersections, a pedestrian crossing for a public trail and was regularly used by cyclists and pedestrians.