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  • Police officer charged after Brampton collision sends civilian driver to hospital

    A Toronto-area police officer has been charged after allegedly driving into a civilian's vehicle while responding to a medical call in Brampton. The incident occurred on Aug. 28, 2023 at the intersection of Bovaird Drive East and Dixie Road, around 9:30 p.m. According to the Special Investigations Unit (SIU)—which reviews incidents involving police in which injury, death or sexual assault are alleged—the officer was responding to a medical-related call for service when the collision took...

  • School bus driver and three students taken to hospital after crash near Ottawa

    Ontario Provincial Police say several students have been taken to hospital after a school bus and a transport truck collided on a highway. Police say in a news release that the crash happened Monday afternoon after 4 p.m. on Route 400 in Russell Township, southeast of Ottawa, where the highway meets MacDonald Rd. In addition to the driver, police say three students were on the bus at the time, and all were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver and lone occupant...

  • Police say driver fatally shot after fleeing, then crashing into Tesla: 'Mother of all booms'

    A 36-year-old man was fatally shot Saturday night after fleeing from Pasadena police officers and crashing into a resident's parked Tesla, police say. Around 8:40 p.m., the department said officers discovered a parked white pickup truck facing the wrong direction on a one-way street on Hudson Avenue in Pasadena, not far from the California Institute of Technology campus. As the officers were talking with the driver, he suddenly sped away, “narrowly” missing hitting an officer, according to a...