https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/over-600000-near-miss-incidents-with-pedestrians-cyclists-recorded-at-intersections-across-canada/

One in every 770 pedestrians and one in every 500 cyclists experience a high-risk or critical near-miss at intersections across Canada, according to a new study commissioned by CAA.

CAA and Miovision—a traffic data analysis company—watched 20 intersections nationwide between August 2024 and February 2025 using cameras and artificial intelligence.

They logged over 600,000 near-miss moments, indicating that at least three serious incidents occur at a single location every day.

This sounded like undercounting it, until I realized this is one in 770 times a pedestrian crosses a single intersection a near-miss occurs, not within a year, and 600k near miss events happened at 20 intersections over 6-7 months.

Because yeah as a cycling commuter that sounds about right, several times a year there’s a near miss situation where I had to stop suddenly because the drivers weren’t looking at all.