A 19-year-old Cobourg man is dead following a single-vehicle collision in Port Hope on Monday night (February 21).
At around 10 p.m., Port Hope police were notified of a serious collision near Robertson Street and Mill Street South in Port Hope. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
Port Hope police contacted the Ontario Provincial Police to help investigate the circumstances leading up to the fatal collision.
Initial information indicates a constable with the CN Police Service attempted to stop a vehicle on Peter Street in Port Hope when the vehicle fled. The CN Police Service is a private police force under the federal Railway Safety Act that protects the property and rail infrastructure of CN Railway.
Port Hope police are investigating the exact series of events that occurred in the incident.
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) did not invoke their mandate for this collision, as the CN Police Service is federally regulated and the SIU has no jurisdiction in this case.
