OPP officer charged in crash
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:34 pm
Ontario Provincial Police officer has been charged in connection with a collision Tuesday in Laurentian Valley Township.
Police say the officer was responding to a crash and was driving with its emergency lights and siren activated on Paul Martin Drive, when it collided with a west bound 2004 Ford truck that was towing an empty flatbed trailer.
That truck, then hit a Honda that was parked facing east on the side of Boundary Road.
No injuries were reported.
25-year-old Const. Andrew Howat of the Upper Ottawa Valley OPP detachment has been charged with failing to yield to traffic under the Highway Traffic Act.
He has been a member of the OPP for four years.
http://www.cfra.com/news/2016/03/04/opp ... d-in-crash
Police say the officer was responding to a crash and was driving with its emergency lights and siren activated on Paul Martin Drive, when it collided with a west bound 2004 Ford truck that was towing an empty flatbed trailer.
That truck, then hit a Honda that was parked facing east on the side of Boundary Road.
No injuries were reported.
25-year-old Const. Andrew Howat of the Upper Ottawa Valley OPP detachment has been charged with failing to yield to traffic under the Highway Traffic Act.
He has been a member of the OPP for four years.
http://www.cfra.com/news/2016/03/04/opp ... d-in-crash