Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) has recently highlighted the province’s top 5 speed hot spots to help raise awareness of the high-risk – and often deadly – driving behaviour.
The following locations had the highest proportion of drivers observed speeding in a recent MPI observational study:
- Eastbound Highway 1 – West of Elie, Cartier
- Southbound Main Street – South of Young Avenue, Selkirk
- Eastbound Inkster Boulevard – East of Bergen Cutoff Road, Rosser
- Northbound Highway 6 – North of Grand Rapids
- Eastbound Maryland Avenue – Between Cornell Bay, Brandon
The 2022 study, which included over 2.3 million vehicles at more than 50 different urban and rural locations throughout the province over five months, was designed to better understand how frequently drivers were speeding on Manitoba’s roadways.
“We know that speeds kills and continues to be one of the major contributors to all collisions that happen every year,” said Satvir Jatana, MPI’s Chief Customer Officer. “Every driver has a choice when they get behind the wheel – slow down and drive to conditions. MPI encourages everyone to do just that as they enjoy one of the last long weekends of summer.”
MPI data consistently shows that speed is a contributing factor in almost 20 per cent of all fatal collisions annually.
The study also found that Manitobans are especially travelling at dangerous speeds on highways – including nearly 100,000 vehicles observed travelling more than 10km/h over the posted speed limit on highways.
The results of the research were shared with road safety stakeholders and will be used by MPI to focus its speed prevention efforts on regions with the highest rates of speeding moving forward.
