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News Release

Witnesses Sought of OPP-Involved Collision with School Bus in Orillia

Case Number: 26-PVI-182   

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Mississauga, ON (23 April, 2026) ---
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is seeking witnesses to a collision involving a school bus and truck on Highway 11 in Orillia last Thursday morning. A 16-year-old girl on board the school suffered a serious, non-life-threatening injury. The SIU is investigating the circumstances that led to the collision.

Preliminary information suggests the following:
  • On April 16, 2026, just before 7:30 a.m., an officer driving an OPP vehicle with emergency lights was stopped on the off-ramp to Forestview Road and partially onto Highway 11 northbound.
  • At the same time, travelling northbound on Highway 11, there was a collision involving a school bus and a truck. 
  • Dashcam video shows a dark-coloured Jeep Wrangler SUV travelling northbound as well as vehicular traffic travelling southbound at the time of the collision. SIU investigators are asking any of those drivers who may have witnessed the collision, or has dashcam footage, to contact the SIU at 1-800-787-8529 or online at: https://siu.on.ca/en/appeals.php

If you or someone you know has been negatively affected by an incident under SIU investigation and would like support, the Affected Persons Program is here to help. You can reach us at 1-877-641-1897. Support is free, confidential, and available 24/7, every day of the year.

The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials (municipal, regional and provincial police officers, police officers with the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service, 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

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Kristy Denette, siu.media@ontario.ca
SIU Communications/Service des communications, UES