TORONTO – – Immigrants to Canada’s most ethnically diverse city are less likely to get into accidents than native-born residents.

Hold on! Don’t take our word for it. Read it here. 

If you’re not convinced, you’re not alone. Click here and read page after page of comments about what people really think of the study.

Regardless of people’s perceptions, the decade-long study tracked almost a million new Canadians and compared their crash involvement to that of longtime residents and it turns out, according to researchers, that the newcomers — mostly from India and China — were 40 to 50 percent less likely to wind up in bad smash up.

(Of course, some might point out that the study mostly measured the severity of crashes, not total accidents involving newcomers).

Also, according to the study, the immigrants’ likelihood of winding up in a crash grows, the longer they’re here.

So, it says.

In the words of Dr. Donald Redelmeier, an internal medicine specialist at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (as quoted in on the Toronto Star’s Wheels Website,) "perhaps one-third of the total 5,000 hospital admissions for road trauma in Ontario each year might be prevented if long-term residents changed their behavior to match recent immigrants."

Hey, we’re just the messengers.