Lambton County OPP officer charged after collision with SUV while en route to emergency call

[Michael Jack]

A 18-year veteran of the OPP has been charged under the Highway Traffic Act after crash with a SUV in Lambton County.

The OPP says the crash happened at the intersection of Petrolia Line and Oil Heritage Road around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Investigators say the officer, who is a member of the Emergency Response Team, was travelling west on Petrolia Line in a fully marked pick-up truck on his way to an emergency call in Petrolia, he collided with a Ford SUV was headed south on Oil Heritage Road.

Officers say the driver of the SUV, a 32-year-old Plympton-Wyoming woman, suffered minor injuries and was treated at a local hospital and released.

The OPP officer was not injured.

As a result of the investigation, the OPP says Sgt. Peter Vanderheide has been issued a provincial offence notice for red light – fail to stop contrary to the Highway Traffic Act.

http://www.am980.ca/2014/07/25/23487/

[Michael Jack]

An OPP officer involved in a collision while responding to a call in Petrolia has been charged with failing to stop for a red light.

The officer, a member of the West Region OPP Emergency Response Team, was involved in a collision around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

At the time, poilice were dealing with reports of an armed robbery at a bank in Petrolia.

The marked OPP pickup truck was westbound on Petrolia Line when it struck a Ford SUV that was southbound on Oil Heritage Road.

The driver of the SUV, a 32-year-old Plympton-Wyoming woman, suffered minor injuries and was treated at a local hospital and released.

The officer, Sgt. Peter Vanderheide, an 18-year member of the force, was not injured.

He was issued a provincial offences notice for red light – fail to stop contrary to the Highway Traffic Act.

http://london.ctvnews.ca/officer-charge ... -1.1932246

[Michael Jack]

An OPP sergeant has been charged with failing to stop at a red light, following a Wednesday collision on Petrolia Line that resulted in minor injuries to another motorist.

A fully marked OPP vehicle was responding to an emergency call in Petrolia around 3:30 p.m., police said, when it collided with an SUV at the Oil Heritage Road intersection.

The OPP were dealing with a bank robbery investigation in Petrolia at the time.

A 32-year-old Plympton-Wyoming woman was treated in hospital for minor injuries. The officer wasn’t injured.

http://www.ipick.ca/london/opp-sergeant-charged

[Michael Jack]

Lambton OPP say a member of the West Region Police Emergency Response Team has been charged under the Highway Traffic Act.

The Wednesday afternoon incident, at the intersection of Petrolia Line and Oil Heritage Road resulted in a collision between the officer's fully-marked OPP pick-up truck and an SUV.

Minor injuries were sustained by the 32 year-old woman who was behind the wheel of the Ford SUV.

An eighteen-year veteran of the OPP faces a charge of failure to stop for a red light.

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