‘Officers lost sight of the vehicle’: New details emerge in deadly wrong-way 401 crash

More specifications person been released by Durham Regional Police astir officers pursuing a robbery fishy conveyance that ended up driving nan incorrect measurement connected Highway 401 sidesplitting 4 people.

“Officers mislaid show of nan vehicle,” nan study read.

The study was made to nan Durham Regional Police Service Board arsenic portion of an update into nan aggregate SIU investigations involving officers from nan service. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) investigates nan behaviour of officers successful superior incidents that person resulted successful decease and is probing nan incident.

According to nan report, Durham constabulary had received a telephone from an off-duty serviceman astir a robbery from an LCBO successful Clarington, Ont. connected April 29. The fishy had allegedly pulled a weapon connected nan off-duty serviceman who intervened during nan theft.

The fishy past fled nan LCBO successful a achromatic U-Haul van headed westbound connected Highway 2, nan study read. The serviceman had followed nan van until marked cruisers caught up.

But past officers mislaid show of nan conveyance and a little clip later it was located successful Oshawa, according to nan report.

“The fishy conveyance struck a cruiser and entered eastbound Highway 401, walking successful nan other guidance of traffic,” nan study continued. “Officers engaged and pursued nan fishy conveyance onto eastbound Highway 401, walking westbound.”

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“The pursuit ended pinch nan fishy conveyance being progressive successful a multi-vehicle head-on collision, resulting successful 4 fatalities.”

The multi-vehicle collision progressive astatine slightest six vehicles connected Highway 401, conscionable eastbound of Highway 412, successful Whitby, resulting successful nan decease of a child, aged 3 months, a grandmother, property 55, and a grandfather, property 60.

The parents of nan three-month-old kid were besides successful nan car and survived nan crash.

The 21-year-old man who was driving nan U-Haul besides died astatine nan scene. A 38-year-old man, who was a rider successful nan cargo van was taken to infirmary pinch superior injuries.

Police officers and emergency dispatchers successful Durham Region person been instructed to complete a mandatory training course connected fishy pursuits wrong nan adjacent 2 months successful ray of nan wrong-way road crash.