News Release
SIU Investigating After Vehicle Being Followed in Ottawa Rolls Over
Case Number: 17-OVI-295
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The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding a vehicle collision yesterday evening in Ottawa that resulted in a serious injury to a 16-year-old male.
Preliminary information suggests the following:
- In the evening hours of Wednesday, October 11, 2017, Ottawa Police Service (OPS) officers were conducting radar on Hunt Club Road.
- At approximately 6:30 p.m., the officers stopped a vehicle which had been speeding. After the vehicle stopped briefly, it fled from police. The police officers followed.
- In the area of Pike Street and Maple Park Private, the vehicle rolled over.
- The driver and one of the passengers fled the scene on foot. A third occupant of the vehicle, a 16-year-old male, was taken to hospital for treatment of a serious injury.
Two investigators and one forensic investigator have been assigned to this incident.
The SIU is urging 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