The EIB survey on a police chase in Laval

QMI agency

Friday, December 8, 2017 18:56

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Friday, December 8, 2017 19:06

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The Office of investigations has opened an investigation into a police chase on highway 15 and 640 in Laval, during which the fugitive was injured Tuesday night.

The motorist, a man of 34 years old, was caught in a chase by patrol officers of the police of Laval to 22 h while travelling at very high speed.

According to the information available to the EIB, a few minutes after the beginning of the lawsuit, the headlights of the vehicle of the fugitive will be turned off, and the officers of the Service de police de Laval have lost sight of the vehicle, which would have then borrowed the exit 35 on the boulevard des enterprises Terrebonne. In Terrebonne, patrol of the local police department “had seen the vehicle be off the road and would be immediately directed to the scene of the accident”.

The man was taken to hospital and his injuries, on Tuesday evening, did not put his life in danger.

However, on Friday, his state of health has worsened, and “there was concern now for his life,” said the ieo in a press release, inviting “anyone who might have witnessed this event to contact him via his web site at www.bei.gouv.qc.ca.

Six investigators of the EIB have been assigned to this investigation with the assistance of the representatives of the Sûreté du Québec.

The investigations Bureau for independent fact investigation, “at the request of the minister of public Safety, in all cases where a person other than a police officer in service, dies or sustains a serious injury or is injured by a firearm used by a police officer during a police intervention or during detention by a body of police”.