News Release
SIU Starts Investigation into Single Car Crash related to Amber Alert
Case Number: 16-PVI-099
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The Special Investigations Unit has started an investigation into a single car crash in Pembroke that is related to an earlier Amber Alert.
Preliminary information suggests the following:
- Early this morning, York Regional Police issued an Amber Alert concerning the suspected abduction of a four-year-old girl in Aurora.
- Later, Ontario Provincial Police officers near Bancroft spotted and attempted to stop a vehicle matching the vehicle description in the Amber Alert.
- The vehicle managed to evade police and several further attempts were made to stop the vehicle.
- Around 9:30 a.m., the vehicle was travelling along Paul Martin Drive in Pembroke, when it rounded a curve in the road and rolled over.
- A four-year-old girl was transported by air ambulance to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa. The SIU is currently monitoring the four-year-old’s condition to determine the extent of her injuries.
Three investigators, two forensic investigators, and one collision reconstructionist have been assigned to this incident.
The SIU is urging anyone who may have witnessed the incident to contact the lead investigator 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