Hwy. 401 wrong-way police chase 'insane': witness

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A driver who witnessed a wrong-way police pursuit on Highway 401 moments before a fatal crash said he was hoping the chase would have been called off before lives were lost.

on Highway 401 moments before a fatal crash said he was hoping the chase would have been called off before lives were lost.near Green Road and Highway 2 in Bowmanville just before 8 p.m. on Monday. At some point the vehicle fleeing entered Highway 401 in the wrong direction, police said.

A video, obtained by CTV News Toronto, shows a 17-second glimpse of the chase, which appears to have been captured from a dashcam on a vehicle headed eastbound on the highway. “I was hoping someone would have called it off before it got to that point,” Mills said of the tragic ending which left four people dead, including an infant.

CTV Public Safety Analyst Chris Lewis said the police chase protocol is dependent on a range of factors, including the traffic volume and severity of the situation.

 

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