The province’s police watchdog has been called in to investigate after a multi-vehicle crash in Kawartha Lakes sent eight people to hospital, including a police officer.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says just after 3 p.m. on August 14, an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer was traveling southbound on Highway 35 in the vicinity of Somerville 3rd Concession and Royal Cedar Road when a collision occurred involving two other vehicles, a Honda CR-V which was going south on the same highway and a Hyundai Pallisade that was traveling north.
The SIU says the police officer, a 23-year-old woman from the CR-V and six people from the Hyundai – an 82-year-old male driver, a 76-year-old female passenger, a 72-year-old female passenger, a 45-year-old female passenger, a 48-year-old male passenger, and male youth – were all transported to the hospital.
The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.
The circumstances surrounding the crash are now being investigated by the SIU.
The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of police officials that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person.
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