Investigation
High-Speed Police Pursuit Ends in Serious Injuries
Date Published: 2017-03-15
Province: Nova Scotia
Police Agency: Cape Breton Regional Police
Summary
At approximately 9:48p.m. on June 11, 2016a member of the Cape Breton Regional Police (CBRP), Officer 1, attempted to pull over a motor vehicle (the “target vehicle”) that had been reported as driving erratically by witnesses in the parking lot of the Cape Breton County Recreation Centre in Coxheath, N.S. The target vehicle sped off south down the Coxheath Road to evade the police, and 1.4kilometers later left the road and crashed. The driver, AP1, suffered a fractured femur and was air lifted to the QEII Hospital in Halifax. Both passengers, AP2and AP3, were taken to the Cape Breton Regi onal Hospital. One suffered a fractured sternum and the other suffered internal bleeding. As a result of the injuries SiRT was contacted by the CBRP at 10:19p.m. that evening and assumed responsibility for the investigation at that time. The investigation was concluded on December 19, 2016. It was delayed for some time while awaiting the completion of certain forensic reports. During the invest…