News Release
SIU Investigates Vehicle Injuries in Ottawa
Case Number: 15-OVI-035
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Mississauga (19 February, 2015) --- Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing the circumstances surrounding the injuries sustained by a 39-year-old man today in Ottawa.
Preliminary information indicates the following:
• In the afternoon hours of Thursday, February 19, 2015, an officer with the Ottawa Police service attempted to stop a vehicle. When the vehicle did not stop, the officer followed it along Rideau Street;
• A short time later, the vehicle collided with a City of Ottawa transit bus at Rideau Street and Nicholas Street;
• The 39-year-old passenger in the vehicle sustained injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment.
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 SIU at 1-800-787-8529.
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