The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has charged two Durham Regional Police Service officers with criminal negligence causing death and bodily harm following a wrong-way crash on Highway 401 that resulted in four fatalities. The officers, Sgt. Richard Flynn and Const. Brandon Hamilton, are scheduled to appear in court on February 13.
The Special Investigations Unit has charged two Durham Regional Police Service officers in connection with a wrong-way crash on Highway 401., the Special Investigations Unit said its director, Joseph Martino, “has reasonable grounds” to believe that the officers “committed criminal offences” in the April 29 crash.
In a joint statement emailed to CTV News, the lawyers representing the two officers called the charges “wrong” and that they “intend to show that in court.” The three were travelling in a Nissan Sentra with the infant’s parents, who survived the incident. The grandparents were visiting from India to spend time with their grandson.
“Ultimately, this is a horrific thing. It should not have happened. The officer should have stopped the chase. And there’s just no two ways about it in my view,” Lewis said in an interview with CP24 Friday afternoon. Other officers in marked cruisers shortly caught up with the suspect, tailing him through numerous streets. They lost sight of the U-haul before it was located in Oshawa.“Officers re-engaged and pursued the suspect vehicle onto eastbound Highway 401, traveling westbound. The pursuit ended with the suspect vehicle being involved in a multi-vehicle head-on collision, resulting in 4 fatalities.”
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