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As Toronto marches forward with cyclist-friendly plans, City Hall is in the dark about how many serious cyclist-pedestrian collisions are occurring on the city’s congested streets.

“A collision between a cyclist and pedestrian is an incident report. It does not meet Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation definition of a collision,” said Toronto Police Sgt. Brett Moore.

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“In most cases, I would suspect these are not reported frequently by the involved people because injuries are low or people take off. If it was reported, it would get reported as an incident report.”

Incident reports do not get recorded statistically in the same manner as collisions by Toronto Police Services and aren’t looked at by the City of Toronto when municipal politicians create plans like the 10 Year Cycling Network Plan and Vision Zero 2.0 road safety plan.

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A New York Post report concluded that in the Big Apple “bicyclists have injured more than 2,250 pedestrians — including at least seven who died…” since 2011, according to NYC’s Department of Transportation.