City of Ottawa officials are hoping to crack down on aggressive and distracted driving this month as the two high-risk driving behaviours historically cause more fatal and serious crashes than any other factor during the month of August.

Statistics collected by the city show that aggressive and distracted driving “are consistently the most significant causes of these collisions several months of the year.”

Between 2019 and 2023, the city stated in a news release, 61 per cent of collisions resulting in fatalities and major injuries involved factors like speeding, tailgating, cutting off other drivers, refusing to yield right-of-way, running red lights and excessive lane changes or “weaving” through traffic.

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