News Release
SIU Investigating Injuries Sustained by Man on QEW in Vineland
Case Number: 15-PVI-244
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Mississauga (21 October, 2015) --- Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing the circumstances surrounding the injuries sustained by a 35-year-old man yesterday evening in Vineland.
Preliminary information indicates the following:
• Shortly after 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, a vehicle was stopped on the right shoulder in the westbound lanes of the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW), west of Victoria Avenue;
• An OPP officer traveling on the QEW in a cruiser saw the vehicle and pulled up behind the vehicle;
• Before the officer could get out of his vehicle, a man from the vehicle stepped in front of a passing transport truck;
• The man was taken to Hamilton General Hospital for treatment of serious injuries. He remains in hospital in critical condition.
The SIU has assigned four investigators, two forensic investigators and one collision reconstructionist to probe the circumstances of this incident.
Anyone who may have information regarding this case is asked to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529 ext. 9023.
If you or someone you know is an affected person in need of support, please call the Affected Persons Program General Referral Line at 1-877-641-1897 or click here for more information: siu.on.ca/en/apc.php
The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials (police officers as well as special constables with the Niagara Parks Commission and peace officers with the Legislative Protective Service) that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person. All investigations are conducted by SIU investigators who are civilians. Under the Special Investigations Unit Act, the Director of the SIU must
- consider whether the official has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident under investigation
- depending on the evidence, cause a criminal charge to be laid against the official where grounds exist for doing so, or close the file without any charges being laid
- publicly report the results of its investigations