The Indian Consulate Basic has recognized grandparents who died in a crash with their grandchild following a police chase of a theft suspect who went the improper means on Freeway 401 earlier this week.
“Heartfelt condolences on tragic lack of Indian nationals Mr. Manivannan, Mrs. Mahalakshmi and their grandchild within the Freeway 401 collision,” the consulate common wrote in a submit on X, previously Twitter, on Friday night.
The consulate common mentioned officers met surviving relations on the hospital and warranted them they may help them in each doable means.
“We’re in contact with Canadian authorities,” the consulate common mentioned.
The crash, which killed 4 folks and significantly injured two folks, occurred in in Whitby, about 50 kilometres east of Toronto, on Monday night time.
In keeping with Ontario’s Particular Investigations Unit (SIU), the grandparents — a 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman — have been visiting from India. They and their grandson, three months, all died on the scene.
The toddler’s mother and father, a 33-year-old father and 27-year-old mom, have been additionally injured within the crash, the SIU mentioned. The mother and father, who’re residents of Ajax, Ont., have been in the identical automobile because the grandparents and the infant, in response to the SIU.
The collision adopted a police chase that started with an alleged liquor retailer theft in Bowmanville, Ont., within the regional municipality of Clarington. Police pursued the suspect as he drove the improper means on Freeway 401.
That chase resulted in a deadly collision that concerned at the very least six autos, in response to the SIU. The theft suspect was additionally killed.
