Every three months, St. Thomas police post a snapshot of the collisions reported in the city, usually a single page. Nobody usually lines the pages up side by side. Do that, and one intersection keeps turning up: Fairview Avenue at Elm Street.
It made the top three crash locations in the newest report, covering April through June 2026. It also made the list for the first three months of this year, and for the same spring stretch back in 2025, three of the last five STPS quarterly reports. It did not make the top three in the two reports in between. STPS does not publish how many crashes happened at each listed spot, just the top three names, so a spot on the list is not necessarily a lot of crashes, just more than most in what can be a fairly close field.
The rest of this spring’s numbers are pretty steady. Police logged 95 collisions between April and June, involving 177 vehicles and 14 injuries. That is close to the same quarter last year, when 97 collisions involved 188 vehicles and caused 17 injuries, so both the crash count and the injury count eased slightly rather than climbing. The other two spots rounding out this quarter’s top three were Highbury Avenue at Ron McNeil Line and First Avenue at Wellington Street.
A few other details stand out. The report’s breakdown counts six pedestrians and five cyclists caught up in this quarter’s crashes. Six is up from the one pedestrian collision in the January to March report, though the counts are small and a spring quarter is not much like a winter one. Tuesday was the busiest day for crashes and 2 p.m. was the busiest hour. One collision this quarter involved a driver impaired by alcohol, and none involved drugs. Adding up the alcohol and drug figures across the last four quarterly one-page reports, that combined total of one is the lowest of the four.
Its quarterly reports are a plain count of what gets reported to police, not a study of causes, and they do not say why any one corner shows up more than others. None of this means Fairview and Elm is unsafe. But if you drive, walk, or bike through that intersection regularly, it is worth the extra look both ways.
STPS posts these reports every quarter alongside the rest of its media releases, for anyone who wants to check the numbers for their own corner of the city.
Sources: St. Thomas Police Service, Q2 2026 Collision Statistics, Q1 2026 Collision Statistics, Q2 2025 Collision Statistics
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