Police pursued a cargo van speeding in the opposite direction of traffic on April 29, on Hwy. 401 near Whitby, Ont.
Officers pursuing a robbery suspect driving a cargo van — later involved in a deadly wrong-way crash near Toronto — initially 'lost sight' of the vehicle minutes before it barrelled onto Highway 401 on April 29, according to a new police report. The van's surviving passenger is due in court Thursday.Police pursued a cargo van speeding in the opposite direction of traffic on Highway 401 near Whitby, Ont., on April 29.
In the recent report, Durham police confirmed "communications received a call from an off-duty officer regarding a commercial robbery from the LCBO in Clarington." A dispatcher gave Ontario Provincial Police a similar account of what set off the chaotic sequence of events in audio later After the Durham police cruisers caught up with the U-Haul, officers said they "lost sight of the vehicle." The report does not disclose where or how the van driver managed to evade the pursuing officers, but says "a brief time later, was again located in Oshawa."
A reported robbery at a Bowmanville liquor store, within the Ontario regional municipality of Clarington, set off the chain on of events on April 29 that ended in the fatal wrong-way crash on nearby Highway 401. The van driver, Singh, was the fourth person to die in the six-vehicle crash. CBC previously reported that, at the time, Singh was under a court order not to be behind the wheel.Manpreet Gill, the sole passenger travelling in the U-Haul with Singh, suffered serious injuries in the crash. The SIU said he was recently released from hospital.
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