An Indian couple visiting Canada and their three-month-old grandchild had been amongst 4 folks killed on the spot in a multi-vehicle collision when Ontario police pursued a liquor retailer theft suspect driving the fallacious method.
All 4 folks had been pronounced lifeless on the scene on Freeway 401 in Whitby, about 50 kilometres east of Toronto, police stated on Thursday.
Ontario’s Particular Investigations Unit (SIU) stated that two of the victims, a 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman, had been visiting from India. Nevertheless, the SIU didn’t launch the names of the victims.
The couple’s three-month-old grandson additionally died within the multi-vehicle collision. Freeway 401 was closed for a number of hours after the incident on Monday, it stated.
The company stated that the dad and mom of the toddler, his 33-year-old father and 27-year-old mom, had been travelling in the identical automobile and had been taken to hospital.
The mom’s accidents are severe, the SIU stated.
The 21-year-old theft suspect was additionally killed within the collision, which concerned at the least six autos, Ontario Chronicle reported.
Officers have stated the lethal automotive chase began with a liquor retailer theft in Bowmanville and ended round 20 minutes later after the suspect in a cargo van led Durham police on a high-speed chase towards opposing visitors on Freeway 401.
A 38-year-old male passenger from the cargo van was additionally taken to the hospital to be handled for severe accidents.
The autopsies for the victims had been performed in Toronto on Wednesday.
Seven investigators, one forensic investigator and one collision reconstructionist proceed to analyze this case, the assertion stated.
The SIU is an company referred to as in to analyze each time police are concerned in a dying, severe damage or allegations of sexual assault.
Milica Maljkovic Birkett, a witness to the lethal police chase and had a fortunate escape, stated she didn’t have time to assume.
She was driving her common commute on the 401, when she was all of the sudden face-to-face with the suspect van barrelling towards her automotive on the fallacious method.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, like what just happened? What’s going on?’” Maljkovic Birkett advised CBC Toronto on Thursday.
Maljkovic Birkett stated the expertise has taken time to course of.
“It’s so scary,” she stated. “For whatever reason, somehow my life was spared. But (four) others were taken and that was just really heavy,” she stated.
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