Police vehicle collisions reached five-year high in 2025: WRPS
Posted Feb 18, 2026 06:43:12 AM.
Last Updated Feb 18, 2026 09:37:24 AM.
Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) are counting the cracks, dings, and dents on its cruisers from 2025, with new numbers showing a rise in collisions involving police vehicles over the past few years.
“In 2025, WRPS vehicles were involved in 75 motor vehicle collisions,” said WRPS in its latest report. “This figure is higher than the five-year average of 65 annual collisions involving Service vehicles.”
The data shows an increase in cases over the past four years, in particular, 49 in 2022 (post-COVID), 71 collisions in 2023, 75 in 2024, and now 75 last year.
The five-year high average sat at 65 collisions, also taking into account 58 police vehicle-involved crashes in 2021.
Of those 75 crashes, WRPS members were deemed at fault a majority of the time, at 53 per cent. That’s a slight drop from 2024, when members were at fault 62 per cent of the time, but a rise from 2023, when members were at fault in 48 per cent of cases.
“Of the 40 motor vehicle collisions where members were deemed to be at fault, 31 collisions occurred on private property, and the Ontario Highway Traffic Act did not apply,” WRPS stated in the report. “In the other nine collisions that occurred in the roadway, one member was charged under the Ontario Highway Traffic Act.”
Taking a look at what officers were doing when the collisions took place, the numbers align with those at-fault numbers, with the highest number being incidents where cruisers struck objects in parking lots or on private property.
“Motor vehicle collisions present potential risk to the safety of our community and our members,” WRPS stated. “Our Service’s commitment to the reduction in member-involved on-duty motor vehicle collisions is a positive step in increasing safety and ongoing mitigation of risk.”
Those numbers and more are set to be presented during the next WRPS board meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 10:30 a.m.
