News Release
SIU Investigates Motor Vehicle Injuries in Brantford
Case Number: 12-OVI-336
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Mississauga (13 November, 2012) --- Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing the circumstances surrounding a motor vehicle collision in Brantford on Sunday that resulted in serious injuries to a 35-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman.
The Brantford Police Service (BPS) contacted the SIU and reported the following:
• In the afternoon of November 11, 2012, a BPS officer was operating a marked cruiser in the area of West Street and Charing Cross Street;
• At approximately 4:45 p.m., the officer attempted to stop a Ford F-150 pickup truck traveling north on West Street. However, the truck accelerated, made a U-turn and collided head-on with a Ford Explorer pickup truck stopped at the corner of West Street and Charing Cross Street;
• The occupants of both vehicles were taken to Brantford General Hospital for treatment. Only the occupants of the Ford F-150 sustained serious injuries – the 35-year-old driver a fractured clavicle and his 28-year-old passenger a fractured ankle.
The SIU has assigned four investigators, two forensic investigators and a collision reconstructionist to probe the circumstances of this incident.
Anyone who may have witnessed this incident is asked to contact the lead investigator at 416-622-1957 or 1-800-787-8529 extension 1957.
If you or someone you know is an affected person in need of support, please call the Affected Persons Program General Referral Line at 1-877-641-1897 or click here for more information: siu.on.ca/en/apc.php
The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials (police officers as well as special constables with the Niagara Parks Commission and peace officers with the Legislative Protective Service) that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person. All investigations are conducted by SIU investigators who are civilians. Under the Special Investigations Unit Act, the Director of the SIU must
- consider whether the official has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident under investigation
- depending on the evidence, cause a criminal charge to be laid against the official where grounds exist for doing so, or close the file without any charges being laid
- publicly report the results of its investigations