Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is investigating after a man and woman were seriously injured in a collision following a police pursuit in Lindsay early Sunday morning (April 19).
At around 3:30 a.m., the Kawartha Lakes Police Service received a 9-1-1 call reporting unknown trouble in the area of Colborne Street West and William Street North in Lindsay.
According to preliminary information released by the SIU, an officer in a marked cruiser responded, locating a BMW of interest parked at Regent Street and Victoria Avenue North.
After the officer stopped behind the parked vehicle, the driver fled and the officer pursued the vehicle southbound on Victoria Avenue. A short time later, the driver of the BMW collided with a parked vehicle at Victoria Avenue South and Glenelg Street West and landed on the top of another parked vehicle.
The driver, a 21-year-old man, and the passenger, a 32-year-old woman were taken by ambulance to Ross Memorial Hospital.
The man was admitted to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries and the woman was transported to a Toronto hospital with serious injuries.
Following the incident, the Kawartha Lakes Police Service notified the SIU, which invoked its mandate.
The SIU an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of police that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault, or the discharge of a firearm at a person. all investigations are conducted by SIU investigators who are civilians.
Anyone who may have witnessed the pursuit on Victoria Avenue South between Russell Street West and Glenelg Street West is asked to contact the SIU’s lead investigator for case number 25-OVI-185 at 1-800-787-8529 or online at siu.on.ca/en/appeals.php.
