Two grandparents and their infant grandchild were among four people killed in a fiery crash east of Toronto on Monday, after police pursued a robbery suspect driving the wrong way on Highway 401, Ontario’s police watchdog says.

Monica Hudon, spokesperson for the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), said the robbery suspect was also killed in the collision, which involved at least six vehicles.

All four people were pronounced dead at the scene on Highway 401 in Whitby, about 50 kilometres east of Toronto, Hudon said. Another person was taken to hospital with significant injuries, she added.

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    2 months ago

    Regardless of how the police handled it, this is the end result of the criminals’ actions. Had they not chosen to steal from the store, and chosen to drive incredibly dangerously in an attempt to avoid punishment for that theft, none of this would have happened.

    The majority of the blame goes to the person who set this entire chain of events in motion.

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      1 month ago

      There’s this thing called critical thinking skills and they are important to function in society.

      Many cops seem to be lacking those.

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      2 months ago

      The way I see it it takes two to tango, so go ahead and place all the blame on the criminal, of course they initiated the immediate chain of events, now IMO the police share equal responsibility for this outcome when they choose to continue such a high-risk pursuit over such a petty crime.