Investigation
High-Speed Pursuit Ends in Death
Date Published: 2020-05-28
Province: Nova Scotia
Police Agency: Halifax Regional Police
Summary
About 1:40am on October 21, 2019, a member of the Halifax Regional Police (HRP) in a patrol vehicle saw a small car on Victoria Road in Dartmouth go south through a red light at the Highfield Park Drive intersection. The officer followed the car and turned on his emergency lights and siren. The car did not pull over, but did not pick up speed at th e time, either. During the next twenty minutes the car made two full crossings of the MacDonald and MacKay bridges, some of the time with HRP vehicles following in slow pursuit. Along the way, the car went through red lights and stop signs and broke other driving laws, potentially endangering police and members of the public as well as the driver himself. After the pursuit began on Victoria Road, the car travelled within the speed limit to the MacDonald Bridge, where two other police vehicles became in volved. The officers driving the three police vehicles tried unsuccessfully to box in the car on the Bridge and bring it to a stop. At…