Pickup truck hits pedestrian, goes through fence, ends up in backyard pool in Whitby: police
Posted October 11, 2024 2:18 pm.
Last Updated October 12, 2024 9:50 am.
A man was seriously injured after he was struck by a pickup truck that went off the roadway, crashed through a fence and ended up in a backyard pool in Whitby, police say.
Officers with Durham Regional Police Service were called to the area of Rossland Road East and Fencerow Drive just before 1 p.m. on Friday.
According to police, a Dodge Ram pickup went off the roadway and struck a 28-year-old pedestrian who was waiting at a bus stop. The vehicle then hit two bell boxes before crashing through a fence and coming to a stop in the pool.
Police said the pedestrian was transported a trauma centre in Toronto where he remains in potentially life-threatening condition.
“I was in a room in my house on the second story that was facing the backyard and all I heard was what I thought was an explosion. I didn’t know what it was, I thought it could have been a small plane crash,” homeowner Karen Fedyk tells CityNews. “I looked out and I saw this half-tonne truck in my pool.”
Police say the driver, a 65-year-old man from Oshawa, was located in the vehicle in the pool and treated for minor injuries at the scene by paramedics.
“I can’t definitively say whether it was travelling too fast or at the posted speed limit. To cause significant damage like that you obviously have to be traveling at a not reasonable speed but these are all things that will be investigated,” Cst. Nicholas Gluckstein tells CityNews.
No charges have been laid at this time. Police say an investigation is ongoing.
