Driver injured in police pursuit in Brampton, SIU investigating

The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating a crash in Brampton that sent one person to hospital by air ambulance.

By BT Toronto

The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating a crash in Brampton that sent one person to hospital by air ambulance.

According to police, officers were involved in the pursuit of a stolen vehicle on Williams Parkway, west of Kennedy Road, just after midnight on Wednesday.

Police believed the driver of the vehicle may have also been impaired.

No details on the crash have been released but images from the scene show damage to the front end of a Peel police cruiser and a van crashed into the concrete barriers that line the road.

The driver of the van was airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

There has been no word on any other injuries.

Police have also closed off a second scene at Kennedy Road north of Church Street.

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