(Corner Brook, NL), October 5, 2019 – The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) have requested that the Department of Justice and Public Safety engage an independent agency to oversee the investigation of a fatal motor vehicle collision that occurred in Corner Brook on Friday evening.
On Friday, October 4, 2019, at approximately 9:40 p.m. an RNC Patrol Officer travelling on Main Street in Corner Brook attempted to initiate a traffic safety stop with a vehicle. The vehicle failed to stop for police. A short time later, the officer located the vehicle in an area known as lower Caribou Road where it had collided in to a private dwelling.
There was one individual in the vehicle, a man in his twenties, who was taken to a hospital by Corner Brook paramedics, but succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased.
As in all cases where an RNC officer is present at an incident that results in a serious injury or death, the Chief of Police has requested that the Department of Justice and Public Safety engage an independent agency to oversee the investigation.
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File # 2019-56455
Cst. James C. Cadigan #775
Media Relations Officer
Royal Newfoundland Constabulary
(709) 729-8658