News Release

News Release

SIU Investigating Collision involving Toronto Police Vehicle and Cyclist

Case Number: 16-TVI-197   

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Mississauga, ON (26 July, 2016) ---
A collision involving a cyclist and a Toronto Police Service vehicle overnight in Scarborough is now the focus of an investigation by the province’s Special Investigations Unit. 

Preliminary information suggests the following:
  • Just before midnight on July 25, a 39-year-old man was riding a bicycle westbound on Merrian Road.
  • Around the same time, a Toronto Police vehicle was travelling north on Kennedy Road.
  • The bicycle and the police vehicle collided in the intersection of Kennedy and Merrian.
  • The 39-year-old man was transported to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre with several fractures.
    
The SIU has designated one subject officer and two witness officers in this investigation.

Three investigators, one forensic investigator, and one collision reconstructionist have been assigned to investigate this incident.

The SIU is urging anyone who may have witnessed the incident to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529.

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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