Police officers and emergency dispatchers in Durham Region have been instructed to complete a mandatory training course on suspect pursuits within the next two months in light of a wrong-way highway crash that killed an infant and his grandparents. Police say the training is required annually but confirm the instructions to complete it within a two-month timeframe are due to last week's fatal crash. Ontario's police watchdog has said a 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman, who were...
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is investigating after four people were injured in a single-vehicle collision in Oshawa on Sunday afternoon. The crash happened in the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 at Stevenson Road. The SIU said at about 3:30 p.m. an OPP officer was conducting speed enforcement on the 401 near Thickson Road in Whitby when a driver they’d tried to pull over fled. “A short time later, the driver was involved in a single vehicle collision -- a rollover -- in...
A funeral was held on Wednesday for a three-month old boy who died after being involved in a wrong-way crash on Highway 401 in Whitby last week. The service for Aditya Vivaan Golkunath took place at the Chapel Ridge Funeral Home in Markham. In a copy of Aditya’s eulogy obtained by CTV News Toronto, Adi, as he was affectionately known, was remembered as a “beautiful soul” who was taken from his loved ones “far too soon.” “It feels like just yesterday that Gokul (his father) called us and...
A woman is due to appear in court in connection with a fatal road traffic collision in Christchurch. Dorset Police received a report at 8.50am on Friday 30 September 2022 of a collision involving a grey Suzuki Swift and a black Kawasaki motorbike in Barrack Road, at the junction with Avenue Road. Very sadly, the […]
Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with relevant dashcam footage to come forward as they investigate a road traffic collision near Dorchester. At around 1pm on Saturday 18 May 2024 Dorset Police received a report of a single-vehicle collision on the westbound carriageway of the A35 Puddletown Bypass near Tolpuddle. Emergency services attended and […]
Police say a wrong-way crash on Connecticut's Merritt Parkway has killed
A woman in California was taken into police custody Friday after a car chase ended in a violent wrong-way crash.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat who heads the Senate Banking Committee, is calling for a leadership overhaul at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation following a scathing 234-page report released earlier this month that detailed pervasive sexual harassment, discrimination and bullying at the agency. Brown stopped short of explicitly calling for FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, to resign. Rather, he said in a statement Monday morning, “there must be...
A male driver was trapped in his vehicle for nearly 45 minutes after colliding with a parked car and hydro pole on Saturday night. Police say that the crash happened at 11:45 p.m. on Yonge Street north of Steeles Avenue. The driver became trapped inside the vehicle before emergency response crews arrived. He was extracted in under an hour and transported to hospital by paramedics with serious, non-life-threatening injuries. York Regional Police are investigating. The cause of the collision...
More than 300 weapons have been seized after police in Sheffield swooped following reports of young people selling knives online. South Yorkshire Police said the weapons, which included machetes and crossbows, were found after officers executed a warrant on Emerson Crescent. “The warrant was obtained following reports of knives being sold online by young people,” the force said. “These reports were soon proven correct as officers uncovered 350 weapons including machetes, locking knives,...
A judge has set aside the recent guilty verdicts of a Lakeshore man convicted in the deaths of two people in a 2020 collision after a Windsor police traffic reconstruction report was deemed erroneous. Following a trial in the fall, Philip Hayes, 33, was convicted on two criminal counts of dangerous driving causing death. A […]
A motorist led police on a high-speed chase through Santa Monica and Brentwood early Friday before driving the wrong way on the 405 Freeway and crashing into multiple vehicles, authorities said. The incident began shortly after 4 a.m. when police received reports of a female motorist causing a disturbance at 4th and Rose avenues in Venice, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a post on X. It's unclear what happened when police arrived, but the unidentified woman rammed her white van into a...