New Delhi: An Indian couple visiting Canada and their 3-month-old grandson lost their lives as their car found itself at the wrong place and at the wrong time.
In a horrible highway collision, the suspect of a liquor store robbery was driving fleeing the wrong way as Ontario Police gave chase.
Unfortunately, he crashed with the vehicle in which the Indian family was travelling in.
The robbery suspect was also killed in the high-velocity crash in Ontario earlier this week.
According to Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU), two of the victims — a 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman — were visiting their son and daughter-in-law from India.
The parents of the infant – 33-year-old father and 27-year-old mother – were on the same vehicle.
Residents of Ajax town, in southern Ontaria, the parents were taken to hospital for treatment. The mother suffered serious injuries, SIU stated.
Officials stated that a deadly car chase began following a robbery at a liquor store in Bowmanville, Ontario. After 20 minutes of high-speed chase against the traffic, the suspect who was driving a cargo van on Highway 401 in Whitby, about 50 kilometres east of Toronto, crashed into the Indian family’s vehicle, reported PTI.
A 38-year-old male passenger from the cargo van was also taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
Seven investigators, one forensic investigator and a collision reconstructionist are probing the, stated SIU.
Milica Maljkovic Birkett witnessed the deadly police chase and narrowly escaped.
She was on her regular commute on Highway 401 when she suddenly saw the suspect’s van travelling towards her car on the wrong side of the road.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, what just happened? What’s going on’?” Maljkovic Birkett told CBC Toronto.
Birkett said it took her a long time to process the experience.
“It’s so scary. For whatever reason, somehow my life was spared. But (four) others were taken and that was just really heavy,” she said.
