​West Region OPP release long-weekend seatbelt campaign results

(LONDON, ON) - Officers with the West Region OPP's 13 detachments issued hundreds of charges during the Easter long weekend traffic campaign.

Officers laid 168 charges under Ontario's seatbelt law during the course of the annual seatbelt education and enforcement campaign, from April 3-6. This compares to a five-year high of 338 seatbelt-related charges issued during the campaign in 2025.

Below are the detachment-specific numbers for seatbelt charges, along with impaired driving, distracted driving and speeding charge results from this year's campaign.



Failure to wear a seatbelt caused, or was a contributing factor, in the deaths of 41 Ontarians in collisions on OPP-patrolled roads last year. Of those deaths, 14 were in West Region alone. So far in 2026, four traffic deaths in West Region have been attributed to failure to wear a seatbelt.

Along with aggressive driving, impaired driving, distracted driving and driver fatigue, failure to wear a seatbelt is one of the leading contributing factors to death, injury and property damage on the province's roads and highways.

The OPP will continue to enforce the seatbelt law to reduce the number of needless and preventable deaths in southwestern Ontario and beyond.