A stolen truck led police on a chase through Edmonton, ultimately causing a multi-vehicle collision that closed down an intersection. The incident began with reports of the truck driving erratically and culminated in the truck fleeing from police, driving against traffic, and crashing.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time. While people were getting ready to ring in the new year, traffic was at a crawl on the west side of Edmonton . As Jaclyn Kucey reports, that congestion was the result of a police chase turned multi-vehicle collision.
Several charges are pending after a stolen truck police said was fleeing the wrong way up a major west Edmonton road ran a red light, triggering a chain-reaction collision that shut down the intersection on Tuesday night. The crash at Stony Plain Road and 178th Street happened after police were initially called about a truck driving erratically a few kilometres away on the western outskirts of the city. At approximately 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, police responded to a convenience store parking lot near 106th Avenue and Winterburn Road. Police said officers arrived in an unmarked cruiser, observed a Dodge Ram driving erratically and confirmed the license plate on the truck was reported stolen.The pickup left the parking lot and was covertly tracked by police throughout west Edmonton, where EPS said officers looked for an opportunity to safely carry out a traffic stop.While following the truck, police said officers saw it driving on the shoulder, as well as driving slowly through a red light and a stop sign.For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. The truck eventually returned to the convenience store parking lot, where EPS said officers attempted to disable it. EPS said police then attempted to use “other vehicle tactics” to stop the truck in the area of 209th Street and Stony Plain Road, but were unsuccessful. The truck took off speeding, fleeing through the ditch and then driving east into oncoming westbound traffic on Stony Plain Roa
POLICE CHASE STOLEN TRUCK MULTI-VEHICLE COLLISION EDMONTON TRAFFIC
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