KAWARTHA LAKES-In the early morning of April 19, 2026, Kawartha Lakes Police Service officers were dispatched to investigate a 911 call in which a woman was heard pleading with the driver of a vehicle to let her out.
A Kawartha Lakes Police Service officer in a marked cruiser responded to the call locating a BMW of interest just before 3:30 a.m. The officer stopped behind the parked BMW at Regent Street and Victoria Avenue. Shortly after the female 911 caller exited the vehicle. The SIU says the driver fled and the officer pursued the vehicle. A short time later, the driver of the BMW lost control, collided with several parked vehicle and landed on the top of another parked vehicle at Victoria Avenue South and Glenelg Street West.
The SIU says multiple surveillance videos recorded the pursuit. As per the surveillance videos and confirmed by the GPS in his police cruiser, the subject officer followed behind the BMW by at least several seconds, at rates of speed reaching about 140 km/h. While operating the vehicle as it travelled south on Victoria Avenue South, the driver lost control of the BMW.
The 20-year-old male BMW driver and his 32-year-old female passenger were extricated from the vehicle and transported to hospital for treatment of serious injuries.
On assessment of the evidence, SIU Director Joseph Martino determined there were no reasonable grounds to believe that the officer committed a criminal offence in connection with the collision.
