Monthly traffic report
October 2026 on Canadian roads
What the official feeds published on Canadian roads in October 2026: collisions by day, hour, province and road, and every closure and alert counted with them.
Period: October 11 to 31, 2026 · Days and hours in Eastern Time · Incidents published by official feeds, not official collision statistics
Collisions
2,409
about 115 a day
Worst day of the week
Tuesday
137 collisions on average
Worst hour (Eastern Time)
8 a.m.
186 collisions in the month
Time a collision stays listed
31 min
median, from first to last sighting
Key findings
- 2,409 collisions published by the official feeds from October 11 to 31, 2026, about 115 a day.
- Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia account for 90% of the published collisions.
- Hwy 401 and QEW had the most collisions (600 and 171).
- Tuesdays were the worst day (137 collisions on average, against 74 on Sundays); the worst hour began at 8 a.m. Eastern Time.
- 511 Ontario published 63% of the collisions.
1Day by day
Tuesdays, the worst day of the week other days no data or read in part
The archive holds nothing for October 1 to 10: an outage of the archive, not quiet roads. Averages use the 21 full days.
2When collisions happen
3Collisions by province
- 1Ontario1,624
- 2Quebec304
- 3British Columbia232
- 4Alberta54
- 5Saskatchewan9
- 6Nova Scotia3
- 7Manitoba2
- 8New Brunswick2
Each collision counted under the province of the feed that published it. 179 collisions are in the totals but not in this ranking. No collisions in the feeds read for Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
4Roads with the most collisions
5Everything the feeds published
| Event | In the month | Per day read |
|---|---|---|
| Closures and construction | 11,814 | 563 |
| Weather alerts and road conditions | 2,984 | 142 |
| Collisions | 2,409 | 115 |
| Other traffic events | 695 | 33 |
| incident | 40 | 2 |
| roadworks | 33 | 2 |
| conditions | 10 | 0 |
Per day over the 21 days the archive read. On October 11, the first day after the gap, events that were still open when recording resumed were counted as new, which lifts long-running events such as closures on that day.
6Sources
| Source | Collisions | All events |
|---|---|---|
| 511 Ontario | 1,507 | 2,573 |
| Québec 511 (MTMD) | 304 | 1,924 |
| DriveBC | 232 | 1,468 |
| City of Ottawa | 117 | 382 |
| City open data (Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary) | 105 | 3,481 |
| Local news report | 74 | 107 |
| 511 Alberta | 54 | 1,471 |
| Saskatchewan Highway Hotline | 9 | 188 |
| 511 Nova Scotia | 3 | 205 |
| New Brunswick 511 | 2 | 201 |
| Manitoba 511 | 2 | 184 |
Also read this month, with no collisions in what they publish: Ville de Montréal; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Ville de Québec (WZDx); City of Winnipeg; Halifax (HRM); City of Edmonton; 511 Yukon; NL 511; PEI 511.
Method
The incidents the official feeds publish, read every few minutes by Roadscore, the platform behind Live Roads Canada, and kept in its archive. An event belongs to the month in which it first appeared in a feed, and its time is when it first appeared there, which can be some minutes after the collision itself.
These are not the official collision statistics (Transport Canada's National Collision Database and the provincial collision records, which count collisions after investigation). Many collisions never reach a live feed, and provinces differ: some feeds publish every collision, some only those that block a lane, some none.
Days and hours are counted on Eastern Time (America/Toronto) for the whole country, so in provinces on another clock a collision shows in a different hour than the local one.
Roadscore’s archive has no data for October 1 to 10, so this report covers October 11 to 31, 2026. Totals count what was read; the daily, weekday and hourly averages use only the 21 full days.
More on each feed in about and sources.
See the data as tables
| Province | Collisions |
|---|---|
| Ontario | 1,624 |
| Quebec | 304 |
| British Columbia | 232 |
| Alberta | 54 |
| Saskatchewan | 9 |
| Nova Scotia | 3 |
| Manitoba | 2 |
| New Brunswick | 2 |
| Hour (Eastern Time) | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 12 a.m. | 75 |
| 1 a.m. | 41 |
| 2 a.m. | 41 |
| 3 a.m. | 17 |
| 4 a.m. | 28 |
| 5 a.m. | 39 |
| 6 a.m. | 57 |
| 7 a.m. | 107 |
| 8 a.m. | 186 |
| 9 a.m. | 138 |
| 10 a.m. | 134 |
| 11 a.m. | 120 |
| 12 p.m. | 117 |
| 1 p.m. | 122 |
| 2 p.m. | 151 |
| 3 p.m. | 144 |
| 4 p.m. | 153 |
| 5 p.m. | 160 |
| 6 p.m. | 121 |
| 7 p.m. | 107 |
| 8 p.m. | 105 |
| 9 p.m. | 80 |
| 10 p.m. | 89 |
| 11 p.m. | 77 |
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