Motor Vehicle Collisions (MVC) include single or multiple-vehicle collisions in all cars, trucks, vans, motorcycles, and all other street-legal variants thereof.  It does not include injuries that occur while on a skateboard, roller blades, bicycle, child or senior scooters, wheelchairs, skidoos, ATVs, dirt bikes, or crashes sustained during legal auto races.  In regard to this study, it is important to note that only injuries resulting in hospitalization are included, so patients that die en route to the hospital are not counted.  Furthermore, only patients hospitalized at BC Trauma Centres are incorporated into this study.  The raw injury data used in this report is from the timeframe of 2001 to 2006.  From this data, 11 major MVC hotspots were identified within the Metro-Vancouver area.

Certain physical features of the built environment in past studies have been correlated with high rates of Motor Vehicle Collisions (MVC) causing serious injury.  More detailed information regarding these past studies can be found in the Literature Revue.  One of the more interesting discoveries found through this study, is that the top 5 MVC hotspots were all located at locations with low seed limits of 50km/h. 

Combined with medical expenses, the closing of major road arteries after an accident, and seriously injured people being unable to work for significant lengths of time, create severe economic loses for the Canadian economy.   
Please navigate to the links below for detailed information regarding the attributes studied and the findings discovered at the 11 locations visited regarding MVC.