IIO called after traffic stop, fatal crash in Nakusp, B.C. [Video]

One of B.C.’s police oversight agencies has been called after an attempted traffic stop and subsequent fatal collision in the provincial Interior.

The incident occurred around 3 p.m. Monday when an officer with the Nakusp RCMP spotted a suspected stolen vehicle on Highway 6 south of the village.

“The officer attempted to make a traffic stop, but the vehicle reportedly accelerated before driving off the road into the ditch,” reads a statement from B.C. RCMP about the incident.

Paramedics responded and took a passenger to hospital, but the driver of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. – which looks into incidents involving police in the province that result in death or serious harm to a member of the public – has been called to investigate. In its own statement on the incident, it provided some additional details about what happened.

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