Cops and emergency dispatchers in Durham Area have been instructed to finish a compulsory coaching course on suspect pursuits throughout the subsequent two months in mild of a wrong-way freeway crash that killed an toddler and his grandparents.
Police say the coaching is required yearly however verify the directions to finish it inside a two-month timeframe are as a result of final week’s deadly crash.
Ontario’s police watchdog has stated a 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman, who have been visiting from India, and their three-month-old grandson died in a crash that concerned a van being chased by police whereas going the fallacious manner on Freeway 401.
The newborn’s mother and father, who reside in Ajax, survived the April 29 crash.
The Particular Investigations Unit has stated Durham Area police have been chasing a cargo van that had been recognized as a car of curiosity in a liquor retailer theft in Clarington, with the pursuit shifting to Freeway 401.
The driving force of the van, who was additionally killed within the crash, was recognized as a 21-year-old man, whereas a 38-year-old male passenger suffered critical accidents.
The crash has raised questions in regards to the police determination to pursue a suspect van in an alleged liquor retailer theft into oncoming visitors on considered one of Canada’s busiest highways.
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