VPD officer faces possible charges over crash that hurt pedestrian
Posted August 22, 2024 12:49 pm.
B.C. prosecutors are being asked to consider charges against a Vancouver Police officer whose vehicle hit a pedestrian last year.
The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) said in a statement that the officer was responding to a call on the evening of Sept. 29, 2023, when his vehicle hit the woman on Commercial Drive.
The IIO says she was treated by firefighters at the scene but got medical treatment on her own.
The civilian-led police oversight agency says the VPD reported the woman’s injury to the office a month later, and investigators concluded it met the threshold of “serious harm” under the B.C. Police Act.
The statement says the police officer “may have committed an offence in relation to the use of their police vehicle.” As such, the IIO has filed a report with the BC Prosecution Service for possible charges.
It says charges will only be approved if prosecutors decide there’s a “substantial likelihood of conviction” and if the charges are in the public interest.
