FROM: Corporate Communications
DATE: October 9, 2025
SOUTH SIMCOE POLICE JOIN OPERATION IMPACT 2025: SAFETY IS IN MY HANDS
(INNISFIL/BRADFORD, ON) – South Simcoe Police will be participating in Operation Impact 2025, a national public awareness campaign aimed at making Canada’s roads the safest in the world, led by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. By promoting safe driving behaviours, we hope to help prevent collisions, save lives, and reduce injuries on our roads.
From October 10th to 13th, 2025, police across our communities and the country will be focused on behaviours that put drivers, passengers, and other road users at risk: impaired driving due to alcohol, drugs, or fatigue, as well as aggressive driving, distracted driving, and driving without a seat belt.
Most collisions are not ‘accidents’, they are generally the direct result of a conscious decision an individual driver has made. This is why the theme of this year’s campaign remains “Safety is in MY hands”.
“We are asking Canadians to put safety first. Don’t think you are powerless to reduce the number of injuries and deaths on our roads which are simply too high. Drivers make all the difference,” said OPP Chief Superintendent André Phelps, co-chair of the CACP’s Traffic Safety Committee.
Each year, motor vehicle collisions kill about 2,000 Canadians, seriously injure another 10,000 people and injure about 165,000 citizens in this country.
“If every driver remembers that the decision to be responsible is in their hands when they get behind the wheel, we can collectively achieve our goal. We are quite literally asking Canadians to take a hands-on approach to road safety,” added RCMP Inspector Chris Romanchych co-chair of the CACP Traffic Safety Committee.
South Simcoe Police wish to remind the public this long weekend that road safety is a shared responsibility. While more people are travelling, and collisions are therefore more frequent, we all have a role to play in ensuring every journey ends with a safe arrival. This campaign is essential to achieve safer streets and highways in our communities.
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