Ontario’s law-enforcement oversight company has exonerated Sarnia police in an August crash that injured an 80-year-old woman.
At round 3:10 p.m. on Monday, August 26, an officer was travelling northbound on Indian Street, en path to an emergency name.
The Particular Investigations Unit (SIU) mentioned the cruiser collided with an eastbound car on Exmouth Road.
The 80-year-old woman driving the opposite car was transported to hospital for a fractured neck.
SIU Director Joseph Martino mentioned that whereas the officer ought to have taken extra care earlier than going by means of the intersection, he noticed no proof that the officer was negligent. Investigators additionally didn’t blame the sufferer.
“The [officer] did strategy the intersection along with his emergency lights and siren on, got here to a digital cease on the intersection earlier than coming into, and had confirmed that almost all, if not all, of the visitors within the neighborhood, had yielded earlier than he accelerated ahead,” wrote Martino. “On this file, the officer’s indiscretion falls in need of amounting to a marked departure from an affordable commonplace of care within the circumstances.”
-with recordsdata from Josh Boyce
