TORONTO – Ontario’s police watchdog says it’s investigating a crash involving the provincial police force that sent a 17-year-old boy to hospital in Toronto.
The Special Investigations Unit says the incident took place on Saturday morning when officers with York Regional Police spotted a vehicle speeding along Highway 401.
Officers tried to speak to the vehicle’s occupants once they stopped at a convenience store in Toronto’s east end, but the SIU says the driver and three passengers fled the scene.
It says members of the Ontario Provincial Police took up the chase back along the 401, which came to an end in central Toronto when the vehicle and cruiser collided.
The SIU says a 17-year-old boy who was in the vehicle at the time fled on foot, but was found later in unspecified medical distress and taken to hospital.
It says the other three occupants of the vehicle were arrested and did not sustain any serious injury.
The SIU investigates incidents involving police in which someone is injured, killed or accused of sexual assault.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 3, 2022.
