Ontario’s police watchdog has begun an investigation into a fatal collision in central Hamilton.
Hamilton police say the probe is tied to a pair of crashes that happened around 9 a.m. near the intersection of Gage Avenue South and Main Street East.
A spokesperson for the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) told Global News that’s where the incident began with a man driving away in one of the vehicles involved in that collision.
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He would later be connected with another crash just blocks away at Maplewood Avenue and Balsam Avenue South in which he hit a car with a female driver after being spotted by police.
She would be transported to hospital and later succumb to her injuries, say SIU.
The male driver fled that scene on foot.
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