Watchdog recommends charges against Vancouver police officer after car hit pedestrian

Akshay Kulkarni · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 31, 2025 8:22 PM EDT | Last Updated: 39 minutes ago

B.C.'s constabulary watchdog is recommending charges against a Vancouver constabulary serviceman whose conveyance deed a pedestrian successful the Downtown Eastside connected May 21, 2024.

The Independent Investigations Office said successful a Monday connection that a VPD officer's conveyance deed a man who was walking connected East Hastings Street adjacent Dunlevy Avenue just aft 12:30 a.m. PT that day.

The antheral was taken to hospital, wherever helium was recovered to person suffered superior injuries.

The agency's chief civilian director says determination are tenable grounds to judge that the serviceman — who was not named successful the connection — whitethorn person committed driving offences successful the crash.

A study to see charges has been forwarded to the B.C. Prosecution Service.

"In bid to o.k. immoderate charges, the [B.C.] Prosecution Service indispensable beryllium satisfied that determination is simply a important likelihood of condemnation based connected the grounds gathered by the IIO, and that prosecution beryllium required successful the nationalist interest," the IIO connection reads.

The civilian-led bureau investigates each incidents involving constabulary that effect successful decease oregon superior harm, careless of whether oregon not determination are allegations of wrongdoing.

CBC News has contacted the Vancouver Police Department.

The May 2024 pedestrian clang came little than 3 weeks aft different VPD serviceman was fined $2,000 for a clang successful the Downtown Eastside successful September 2022 that near a antheral with life-altering injuries.

Hastings Street has agelong been 1 of B.C.'s astir unsafe areas for pedestrians, and a Vancouver metropolis authoritative precocious told CBC News the metropolis would look astatine further postulation markings on the arterial stretch.