Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating an early morning crash in Brantford that saw two people sent to hospital on Wednesday.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has invoked its mandate revealing that Brantford police did have involvement with one of the two men injured prior to the crash.
Police responded to a collision just before 9 a.m. involving a motorcycle and sport utility vehicle (SUV) near Veteran’s Memorial Parkway and Erie Avenue.
A 25-year-old man, riding the motorcycle, was injured as was the 36-year-old male driver of the sport utility vehicle.
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The SIU says the cycle accelerated away from a Brantford police cruiser just prior to the crash.
The officer driving the cruiser would discover the collision near Veteran’s and Erie moments later.
Three investigators, one forensic investigator and one collision reconstructionist have been assigned to the case, according to the SIU.
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