News Release
SIU Investigating Collision between a Car and a Peel Regional Police Cruiser
Case Number: 16-OVI-130
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The province’s Special Investigations Unit is probing the circumstances surrounding an early morning collision between a Honda Civic and a Peel Regional Police cruiser.
Preliminary information about the matter suggests the following:
- Shortly before 6:00 a.m., a Peel Police officer was a driving a marked cruiser southbound on Main Street in Brampton.
- Just south of the intersection at Williams Parkway, there was a collision with a Honda Civic.
- The two occupants of the Honda were transported to Brampton Civic Hospital with serious injuries. They were both transferred to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. The driver is a 20-year-old male resident of Brampton. The passenger is a 27-year-old man, also of Brampton.
- The officer was transported to Brampton Civic Hospital with minor injuries.
The SIU has designated one subject officer and five witness officers as part of this investigation.
Five 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