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A witness to Monday’s deadly crash in Arnprior was “devastated” by what he saw and says police shouldn’t have been pursuing a stolen truck down Daniel Street.
“The chase should never have happened,” said Eric Bayley, who saw the crash and took a photo of the truck just as it exploded.
“If the guy robbed a bank they would have got him sooner or later. It was a stolen vehicle. Big freakin’ deal. Now a poor grandmother, mother, sister is dead.
“There’s no … way in hell those cops should have been chasing them down that … road.”
The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the crash, which occurred just east of the intersection of Daniels Street South and Edey Street. The SIU said police had been investigating a vehicle reported stolen in Arnprior earlier in the afternoon, but makes no mention of a police pursuit before the crash.
Small silver car was driven by a woman killed when the car was struck by a truck in Arnprior Monday.
But Bayley says he saw the truck chased by a number of OPP vehicles before it collided with a small silver or grey compact car in front of 133 Daniel St. S. A 65-year-old woman was killed in the collision. Her name has not been released.
“There had to have been eight cop cars and three Suburbans wide open going down Daniel Street,” Bayley said. “It could have been a lot worse.”
Bayley, a Bell Canada worker, was driving east on Daniel Street on his way to a job when he was passed by the vehicles. The truck seemed to have come off White Lake Road, which turns into Daniel Street in Arnprior, he said.
“I was talking to my buddy on the phone and I was like ‘Holy s—. This is not going to go well.’ He said, ‘What’s going on’? and I said ‘There’s a high-speed chase. There’s cruiser after cruiser after cruiser,” Bayley said.
“I seen the pickup truck cut the cop off. At first I thought he was a fireman. I seen his face, the young man’s face. I seen everything. He was right beside me.
“He cut the cop off and I thought, ‘Oh, this is not a fire. this is a high-speed chase. And then they blew through the construction zone and I see things flying. He hit pylons and then he hit the one car broadside.”
Truck involved in a fatal crash in Arnprior Monday,
That section of Daniel Street east of Edey is currently under construction. Bayley drove on for two blocks and turned off on Michael Street.
“I parked there and grabbed my phone and all of a sudden the truck exploded. I took a picture just as the truck exploded.”
Bayley’s shows the crumpled white pickup truck engulfed in flames. He never saw the driver get out and it wasn’t until Tuesday morning that Bayley realized it wasn’t the truck driver who had died, but someone else.
“After seeing all that I went around the block, pulled over, called my wife, had kind of an emotional moment and went home,” he said.
The truck hit the compact car on the driver’s side door and crumpled it “like an accordion,” he said.
Asked how fast the truck had been going, Bayley said: “He was moving it. He was booking it down the White Lake Road.”
The SIU said the truck collided with two vehicles on Daniel Street. The truck driver, a 20-year-old man, was taken to hospital. His condition is unknown.
The SIU has assigned five investigators, two forensic specialist and one accident reconstructionist to the case. It is also appealing for any witnesses to the crash to contact them at 1-800-787-8529. Bayley said he hadn’t been interviewed by police or the SIU as of Tuesday morning.
The SIU is an arm’s length agency that investigates instances or civilian death or injury or allegations of sexual assault involving police.
Ontario’s Police Services Act lays out the rules for police pursuits. It says police can pursue or continue to pursue “if the police officer has reason to believe that a criminal offence has been committed or is about to be committed; or for the purposes of motor vehicle identification or the identification of an individual in the vehicle.”
The act also says police must continually weigh whether “the immediate need to apprehend an individual in the fleeing motor vehicle or the need to identify the fleeing motor vehicle or an individual in the fleeing motor vehicle outweighs the risk to public safety that may result from the pursuit.”
The officer must notify dispatch of the pursuit and the dispatcher or “road supervisor” can order the pursuit called off if her or she thinks public safety is at risk.
With files from Megan Gillis
bcrawford@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
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“The chase should never have happened,” said Eric Bayley, who saw the crash and took a photo of the truck just as it exploded.
“If the guy robbed a bank they would have got him sooner or later. It was a stolen vehicle. Big freakin’ deal. Now a poor grandmother, mother, sister is dead.
“There’s no … way in hell those cops should have been chasing them down that … road.”
The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the crash, which occurred just east of the intersection of Daniels Street South and Edey Street. The SIU said police had been investigating a vehicle reported stolen in Arnprior earlier in the afternoon, but makes no mention of a police pursuit before the crash.
Small silver car was driven by a woman killed when the car was struck by a truck in Arnprior Monday.
But Bayley says he saw the truck chased by a number of OPP vehicles before it collided with a small silver or grey compact car in front of 133 Daniel St. S. A 65-year-old woman was killed in the collision. Her name has not been released.
“There had to have been eight cop cars and three Suburbans wide open going down Daniel Street,” Bayley said. “It could have been a lot worse.”
Bayley, a Bell Canada worker, was driving east on Daniel Street on his way to a job when he was passed by the vehicles. The truck seemed to have come off White Lake Road, which turns into Daniel Street in Arnprior, he said.
“I was talking to my buddy on the phone and I was like ‘Holy s—. This is not going to go well.’ He said, ‘What’s going on’? and I said ‘There’s a high-speed chase. There’s cruiser after cruiser after cruiser,” Bayley said.
“I seen the pickup truck cut the cop off. At first I thought he was a fireman. I seen his face, the young man’s face. I seen everything. He was right beside me.
“He cut the cop off and I thought, ‘Oh, this is not a fire. this is a high-speed chase. And then they blew through the construction zone and I see things flying. He hit pylons and then he hit the one car broadside.”
Truck involved in a fatal crash in Arnprior Monday,
That section of Daniel Street east of Edey is currently under construction. Bayley drove on for two blocks and turned off on Michael Street.
“I parked there and grabbed my phone and all of a sudden the truck exploded. I took a picture just as the truck exploded.”
Bayley’s shows the crumpled white pickup truck engulfed in flames. He never saw the driver get out and it wasn’t until Tuesday morning that Bayley realized it wasn’t the truck driver who had died, but someone else.
“After seeing all that I went around the block, pulled over, called my wife, had kind of an emotional moment and went home,” he said.
The truck hit the compact car on the driver’s side door and crumpled it “like an accordion,” he said.
Asked how fast the truck had been going, Bayley said: “He was moving it. He was booking it down the White Lake Road.”
The SIU said the truck collided with two vehicles on Daniel Street. The truck driver, a 20-year-old man, was taken to hospital. His condition is unknown.
The SIU has assigned five investigators, two forensic specialist and one accident reconstructionist to the case. It is also appealing for any witnesses to the crash to contact them at 1-800-787-8529. Bayley said he hadn’t been interviewed by police or the SIU as of Tuesday morning.
The SIU is an arm’s length agency that investigates instances or civilian death or injury or allegations of sexual assault involving police.
Ontario’s Police Services Act lays out the rules for police pursuits. It says police can pursue or continue to pursue “if the police officer has reason to believe that a criminal offence has been committed or is about to be committed; or for the purposes of motor vehicle identification or the identification of an individual in the vehicle.”
The act also says police must continually weigh whether “the immediate need to apprehend an individual in the fleeing motor vehicle or the need to identify the fleeing motor vehicle or an individual in the fleeing motor vehicle outweighs the risk to public safety that may result from the pursuit.”
The officer must notify dispatch of the pursuit and the dispatcher or “road supervisor” can order the pursuit called off if her or she thinks public safety is at risk.
With files from Megan Gillis
bcrawford@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
查看原文...
