TORONTO - An insurance company survey suggests you're more than twice as likely to be involved in a collision in Brampton, Ont., as compared to Belleville, Ont.
The Allstate Insurance Company's second annual Ontario Safe Driving Study ranks Brampton at the bottom of 50 communities surveyed with 6.1 collision claims per 100 cars.
Belleville topped the list as the safest community with 2.8 collision claims per 100 cars.
In general, Allstate found the communities with the highest frequency of collisions were all within a 45-minute drive of Toronto.
With the exception of Belleville, the five communities with the lowest collision frequency in the 2010 survey were all in southwestern Ontario.
The three communities with the largest increases in the frequency of collisions between the 2009 and 2010 studies were St. Thomas, Bradford and North Bay.
"Governments should be asking themselves and the public what can be done in their communities to continue to improve the safety of our roads," said Tony Irwin, an Allstate Canada spokesman.
