T.O. officer injured in crash.

Date: 05/16/2009
Time: Around 9:30 A.M.
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Vehicle(s) Involved: Ford Crown Victoria, Toyota Corolla

By CHRIS DOUCETTE, SUN MEDIA

"A Toronto cop was seriously injured when he apparently lost control of his cruiser while racing to a crime scene and smashed into a car in East York this morning.
Witnesses say the officer, who may have been responding to a robbery, was southbound on Dawes Rd. near Victoria Park Ave. at a high rate of speed with lights flashing and sirens blaring when he crashed around 9:30 a.m.
Dinesh Rathasingam, 22, was driving home with friends after spending the night at a Tamil vigil downtown when the cruiser flew by his car.
He watched in his rearview mirror as the police vehicle slid sideways and slammed into a Toyota Corolla parked at the side of the road.
"I was almost in tears, I was so freaking out for his life," said Rathasingam, after he and his pals ran to the officer's aid and called 911.
One of the others in Rathasingam's car described it as "a massive hit."
"I'm still shaking," Gowrishangar Kamalanathan, 24, said.
He and others said the officer was out cold and bleeding badly from a head injury, but he seemed to regain consciousness before being whisked away by ambulance to the trauma centre at Sunnybrook hospital.
A 76-year-old man who was in the parked Corolla was taken to Sunnybrook hospital.
Toronto Police said the province's special investigations unit, which probes all incidents of serious injury or death involving police, was contacted and may invoke their mandate.
Few other details were available."

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