News Release
SIU Investigates Motor Vehicle Injury in Guelph
Case Number: 13-OVI-013
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Mississauga (18 January, 2013) --- Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing the circumstances surrounding a motor vehicle collision that injured a 53-year-old woman in Guelph on Thursday night.
Preliminary information indicates the following:
• At approximately 6:10 p.m. on Thursday, January 17, 2013, an officer with the Guelph Police Service was exiting the Guelph General Hospital on 115 Delhi Street when his cruiser struck a woman pedestrian.
• The woman sustained a non-life threatening injury and is being treated at the Guelph General Hospital.
The SIU has assigned three investigators and one forensic investigator to probe the circumstances of this incident.
Anyone who may have witnessed this incident is asked to contact the lead investigator at 416-622-1988 or 1-800-787-8529 extension 1988.
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