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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume14-hour count · Feb 12, 2026
Traffic is heaviest from the west: 3,074 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 46% of the total, against 410 from the east. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 643 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 672 from 5:30 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.
Peak hours: 643 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 672 from 5:30 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).
Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m
The worst year was 2019, with 5 collisions; 2025 recorded 4. 6 collisions (21%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 6 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 21% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 3 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (11%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 22, 2026.
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 28 | 4.2 a year per 10,000 daily vehicles |
| With an injury | 6 | |
| Property damage only | 18 | |
| Fail to remain | 6 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 3 | #1414 of 3,196 |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 4 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 3 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.
How fast traffic moves here
On Staines Rd between Point Rouge Trail Park Trl and Warbler Crcl, 349 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in April 2007 put the average speed at 46 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 54 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 60 km/h or more. That segment carries about 2,500 vehicles a day. The reading is 19 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Knowles Dr between Loggerhead Grv and Point Rouge Trl measured slower: 30 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 39 km/h (Jun 2026) — a much more recent reading than the one above.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knowles Dr · Loggerhead Grv – Point Rouge Trl · 172 m | Jun 2026 · 3 days | 378 | 30 km/h | 39 km/h | 47 km/h |
| Staines Rd · Point Rouge Trail Park Trl – Warbler Crcl · 349 m | Apr 2007 · 24 h | 2,463 | 46 km/h | 54 km/h | 60 km/h |
Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- Transit
- No station, stop or route within 1 km in the TTC, GO, UP Express, VIA Rail or regional feeds.
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- no station within 1 km
Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.
Parking within 2 km
No Green P car park, City EV charger or mapped parking lot within 2 km.
Within a walk
What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.
Nothing in the City's records — food premises, parks, schools, libraries, child care, washrooms — is within a walk of this corner.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Five thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 80% of the vehicle thefts were from house driveways and garages.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 5 | 0 | 0 | house driveway/garage (4), apartment parking (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Police offset every occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing, so these are thefts on the streets and premises around this node, not necessarily at the corner itself. Other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see Morningside Heights.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Staines & Knowles a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 28 lesser collisions. High counts usually track high traffic volume rather than a design flaw; volume is shown alongside so the numbers can be read in context.
How busy is Staines & Knowles?
A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Feb 12, 2026, 41% of the median for a counted intersection.
Is Staines & Knowles a walkable intersection?
Staines & Knowles scores 0 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Nothing in those records is within a walk of the corner.
How fast do cars go at Staines & Knowles?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Staines Rd between Point Rouge Trail Park Trl and Warbler Crcl (April 2007), found an average of 46 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 54 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
How many thefts are reported at Staines & Knowles?
Toronto Police place five thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Morningside Heights page.
What neighbourhood is Staines & Knowles in?
Staines & Knowles is in Morningside Heights (City of Toronto neighbourhood 144). It is in Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park, represented by Councillor Neethan Shan.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Feb 12, 2026.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts.
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 25 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.82326, -79.21865 · centreline node 14252616.