Cycling, pedestrian advocate seeks more data on street safety in Summerside [Video]

A safe streets advocate in Summerside, P.E.I., wants more data on collisions between vehicles and cyclists or pedestrians in the city.  

Ken Trenholm is president of the non-profit group SAFE Summerside, which stands for Streets Are For Everyone. 

He says knowing more about how and when collisions happen could help prevent them. 

“Many times it’s motor vehicles backing into a pedestrian,” Trenholm told CBC’s Island Morning host Mitch Cormier on Tuesday. “Or pedestrians who are on crosswalks, or pedestrians who are on sidewalks.”

According to data on the SAFE website, which Trenholm said he got from Summerside Police Services, 16 pedestrians or cyclists were involved in a collision with a vehicle in 2022. 

That was more than double the seven such collisions in the year before, and an increase from the …