News Release

SIU Investigates Motor Vehicle Injuries in Mississauga

Case Number: 13-OVI-036   

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SIU Concludes Mississauga Vehicle Injuries Investigation

Mississauga (7 February, 2013) --- Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing the circumstances surrounding the injuries sustained by a 20-year-old male in Mississauga early this morning.

Preliminary information indicates the following:
• At approximately 2:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 7, 2013, an officer with Peel Regional Police noticed a white Audi traveling east on Dundas Street at a high rate of speed. The Audi turned south onto Mississauga Road, and the cruiser followed the vehicle.
• Approximately 300 metres from the Dundas Street/Mississauga Street intersection, the Audi went off the roadway and was involved in a single motor vehicle collision.
• The driver of the vehicle had to be extricated, and was taken to Credit Valley Hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening head injury. A passenger in the civilian vehicle was also taken to hospital, but she did not sustain serious injuries.

The SIU has assigned three 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 416-622-2038 or 1-800-787-8529 extension 2038.

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