BC Highway Patrol says BC saw safest long weekend in years

For the first time in at least six years, the Victoria Day long weekend did not have a single fatality on BC roads.

BC Highway Patrol released the stats for the high risk driving and motorcycle awareness month.

According to the BC Highway Patrol, the high number of tickets shows that there’s still work to do to make BC highways safer as we look back on the High Risk Driving and Motorcycle Awareness Campaigns for May 2025.

BC Highway Patrol shared:

We had a lot of positive public feedback about the impact of BC Highway Patrol’s high-visibility enforcement, and we’re very happy to do our part to reduce deaths on our roads, says Superintendent Mike Coyle of BC Highway Patrol. We still find too many examples of irresponsible driving.

Over the Victoria Day long weekend, BC Highway Patrol officers did the following education through enforcement**:

• Wrote over 1,900 speeding tickets province-wide;
• Impounded 79 vehicles due to excessive speeding.

Over the course of the month-long High Risk Driving and Motorcycle Awareness Campaigns in May, BC Highway Patrol wrote over 9,600 speeding tickets province-wide including:

• Central/Okanagan Region: Over 2,200 tickets (94 excessive speed with a vehicle impound);
• Vancouver Island: Over 1,500 tickets (53 excessive speed with a vehicle impound);
• Kootenay Region: Over 1,200 tickets (66 excessive speed with a vehicle impound);
• Northern Region: Over 1,900 tickets (68 excessive speed with a vehicle impound);
• South Coast/Lower Mainland: Over 2,500 tickets (122 excessive speed with a vehicle impound).