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A police SUV collided with a civilian motorist Friday morning during the hunt for a suspected impaired driver alleged to have been involved in multiple hit-and-run crashes in Overbrook earlier in the day, city police said.
The suspect was ultimately arrested … for the third time this week.
Both the officer and the motorist received minor injuries in the crash at around 8:55 a.m. at the intersection of St. Laurent Boulevard and Tremblay Road. One was taken to the hospital and the other released by paramedics at the scene of the crash.
At about 8 a.m., police received multiple 911 calls from residents reported the erratic and possibly impaired driver in the area of Donald Street and St. Laurent Boulevard.
Officers fanned out in the area looking for the vehicle.
They engaged in pursuits of the vehicle, but the chases were “immediately called off” out of concern for public safety, police said.
However, officers remained in the area.
The vehicle was ultimately located and the man driving arrested thanks to another call from a member of the public.
Police announced Friday afternoon that a 24-year-old Ottawa man had been charged with operation of a motor vehicle while impaired, dangerous operation, failure to stop after an accident, flight from a police office, unlawful possession of a Schedule 1 substance, driving while suspended and transporting cannabis.
The same man had been arrested Tuesday and Wednesday and charged with unspecified driving infractions and criminal offences after police received public complains about a person driving erratically in the area around St. Laurent and Donald.
He is scheduled to appear in Show cause court tomorrow.
Anyone with information about Friday’s incident was asked to call the Ottawa Police Service at 613-236-1222, ext. 5166.
