Nanaimo Mountie ‘let him go’ before fatal Trans-Canada Hwy. crash: report
NANAIMO — A Nanaimo RCMP officer was cleared of any wrongdoing in a fatal highway crash which killed two people.
The Independent Investigations Office’s (IIO) report said the police officer did the right thing by not pursuing a fleeing suspect who drove the wrong way on the Trans-Canada Hwy on Jan. 14.
“(She) acted entirely appropriately to discontinue any attempt to stop the vehicle,” the report said.
The officer was following 31-year-old Kurtis Timothy after he failed to pull over during a traffic stop in Harewood near the highway. He was then spotted driving south in the northbound lane and narrowly missed a car before fatally crashing into an SUV.