Police chase on Hwy. 401 ends in rollover injuring man, SIU looking for witnesses

The province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is investigating following a single-vehicle rollover Thursday morning on Highway 401 in eastern Ontario, near the Ontario-Quebec border.

Officers from the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (SD&G) Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received an alert shortly after 10:30 a.m. about a stolen white Range Rover travelling eastbound on the highway near Cornwall, said the OPP in a news release Thursday.

Police then tried to stop the vehicle near the Raisin River Bridge, just west of Lancaster, in South Glengarry Township by deploying a spike belt.

“The vehicle drove over a spike belt, which was deployed by officers. The vehicle continued travelling eastbound, exited the highway at the 4th Line Road exit, where it entered the ditch and rolled over,” the OPP said in the release.

That was when the driver was arrested and taken to hospital. The SIU says he is being treated for serious injuries.

The SIU has assigned Three investigators and two forensic investigators to the case.

Anyone with information, or who might have video footage of the incident is asked to call the SIU at 1-800-787-8529.

The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of police officers that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person.