No charges: Special Investigations Unit closes file on Rainy River District OPP officers
No charges will be laid following a review by the Special Investigations Unit of an incident that occurred last October in Pinewood.
Provincial Police were pursuing a truck reported stolen in the west end of the Rainy River District.
OPP first spotted the vehicle on Highway 621.
A spike belt was later deployed, causing the truck to drive over it.
The vehicle continued for a short distance before entering a ditch as it attempted to make a turn from Highway 11 onto Donald Street in Pinewood.
The driver of the truck was not hurt and was arrested.
A passenger, a 19-year-old woman, was also placed under arrest, but suffered a fractured knee.
In its review, the SIU says it found no evidence that the officers involved had committed any criminal wrongdoing that led to the women’s injuries.
Its report states that police travelled at reasonable speeds in their attempts to stop the vehicle, with neither vehicle going any faster than 70 kilometres an hour.
The SIU also noted that police rendered care to the vehicle’s two occupants after the collision and stayed with the injured woman until paramedics arrived on scene.
