A 19-year-old driver was travelling nearly triple the speed limit when he ran a red light, causing a fatal multi-vehicle collision in Scarborough in March , the province's police watchdog has found. On Thursday, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) released its report into the crash that happened in the area of Markham Road and Milner Avenue on the morning of March 13 that left the 19-year-old dead and a 50-year-old man with serious injuries. According to the SIU, the 19-year-old was driving a Mercedes-Benz SUV, which police determined was stolen from Peel Region.
He was speeding north on Scunthorpe Road near Milner Avenue and had blown through a stop sign when he came upon two marked Toronto police cruisers travelling south. The SIU said one of the cruisers, operated by the subject official (SO) and with its emergency lights activated, steered into the northbound lane in front of the SUV. "I saw him, like, drive recklessly and I tried to stop him," the SO is heard telling one of the officers at the scene following the collision.
The conversation, the SIU said, was captured by the SO's body-worn camera. "We were coming down on Scunthorpe trying to get back to the station. I see it like blow that stop sign crossing another car, going north.
So, I light up, I'm like blocking on the other side, it drives on the other side to get around me and that was it." The SIU said the driver swerved to the left, around the passenger side of the officer's cruiser and accelerated past the se.
