Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI) is investigating after a 28-year-old man was injured in an early morning collision involving a police patrol car on Montreal’s South Shore.
The province’s police watchdog said Longueuil police tried to pull over the man who was driving around 3 a.m. on Friday on Taschereau Boulevard in Brossard.
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The man then accelerated and the patrol car turned off its emergency lights, according to the BEI. The driver then struck another car carrying five people about two kilometres away.
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The driver was seriously injured, but his life is not in danger.
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A team of eight investigators with the BEI is tasked with investigating the collision. Two Sûreté du Québec collision reconstruction experts will also aid in the investigation.
The BEI investigates whenever a civilian is injured or killed during a police intervention.
— With files from Global’s Andrea Howick
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