Hwy. 401 crash: audio during wrong-way police chase [Video]

As multiple Durham police cruisers were chasing a robbery suspect on the wrong side of Highway 401 Monday night, an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer shared his concerns, telling a dispatcher, “Someone’s going to get hurt.”

“We have a wrong way. It’s Durham’s in pursuit. The wrong way is going westbound on the eastbound lanes,” the officer informs the dispatcher. “Multiple Durham units are going the wrong direction there.”

A series of radio communications obtained by CTV News Toronto provides a glimpse of the events that unfolded that day, which ended in a six-vehicle collision that left a couple and their infant grandchild dead. An occupant from the suspect vehicle was also killed in the crash, and one other person was seriously injured.

One audio recording captured the moment dispatch advised OPP officers to be on the lookout for a suspect in a robbery that occurred just before 8 p.m. at an LCBO location near Green Road and Highway 2 in Bowmanville.

“Durham (police) …