News Release

SIU Investigators in London for Vehicle Crash following Pharmacy Robbery

Case Number: 17-OVI-111   

Mississauga, ON (14 May, 2017) ---
The province’s Special Investigations Unit has dispatched investigators to examine the circumstances surrounding an overnight collision on Hyde Park Road.  Two men were sent to hospital.

Preliminary information suggests the following occurred:
  • Close to midnight on May 13, 2017, London Police Service received a call about a robbery at a pharmacy.
  • A short time later, a police officer located a vehicle thought to be connected to the robbery.
  • Not long after that, a vehicle flipped and crashed on the front lawn of a residence on Hyde Park Road, north of Fanshawe Park Road.
  • One occupant of the vehicle was taken to hospital with undetermined injuries.
  • A second occupant was located a short distance away.  He was taken to hospital with a serious upper body injury.  

The SIU has assigned five investigators and two forensic investigators as part of this incident.

The SIU is appealing to anyone who may have information about this investigation to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529. The Unit is also urging anyone who may have any video evidence related to this incident to upload that video through the SIU website.

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

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