Investigation
Fatal High-Speed Pursuit
File Number: 2019-028
Date Opened: 2019-08-25
Date Closed: 2020-05-07
Date Published: 2020-07-24
Province: Nova Scotia
Police Agency: RCMP Nova Scotia
Status: Concluded
Decision: No charges laid
Summary
This investigation commenced on August 25, 2019 at 3:05a.m. as the result of a referral by the RCMP concerning a motor vehicle accident which had occurred approximately 30 minutes earlier. The accident involved a civilian vehicle driven by Affected Party 1 (AP1), which was being followed by a marked RCMP vehicle driven by the Subject Officer (SO). SiRT completed its investigation on May 7, 2020. The following items were obtained, during the course of the investigation, and reviewed in preparation of this report; statements from the passenger in the vehicle Affected Party (AP2), eight civilian witnesses, the SO’s report, AP 1’s medical records, autopsy and toxicology reports, involved vehicle history, the notes of six Witness Officers (WOs), RCMP radio communications, the SO’s vehicle GPS showing the route travelled and speed, photographs showing the route travelled, video camera surveillance footage from five different locations, the accident reconstructionist’s report and photographs …