One dead after attempting to flee police in Etobicoke
Posted July 29, 2023 3:20 pm.
Last Updated July 30, 2023 7:06 am.
One person is dead and the Special Investigations Unit has been called in after a truck crashed into a bridge and caught on fire while attempting to flee police in Etobicoke on Saturday afternoon.
At approximately 2:06 p.m., officers in unmarked police vehicles attempted to stop a man in a pickup truck that was believed to be stolen on Feller Road in the area of Martin Grove and Dixon roads.
The man allegedly fled police and crashed into a bridge on Martin Grove Road just north of Dixon Road. The truck caught on fire, and the man was initially treated by paramedics for critical life-threatening injuries, but was later pronounced deceased at the scene.
The SIU says three investigators and one forensic investigator have been assigned to the case.
The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person.
