B.C.’s police watchdog has forwarded a report to the BC Prosecution Service asking it to consider charges related to a crash in Surrey earlier this year.
According to the Independent Investigations Office, a male driver failed to stop after an officer attempted a traffic stop on Jan. 7. The officer pursued the vehicle, which left the road and “flipped several times” near the 104 Avenue on-ramp to Highway 1.
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The driver suffered serious injuries.
Chief civilian director Ronald MacDonald said Tuesday he determined “reasonable grounds exist to believe that an officer may have committed offences in relation to the pursuit of the fleeing vehicle.”
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