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Oshawa Couple's Viral TikTok Shows Stolen Camping Trailer Allegedly Fleeing OPP Pursuit On Hwy. 401 in Northumberland
/Oshawa residents Mike Sidey and his girlfriend Elizabeth Williams were driving westbound on Hwy. 401 in Northumberland Sunday morning when they encountered an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) operation to stop a fleeing truck towing an allegedly stolen camping trailer.
“It was definitely different that’s for sure. It was entertaining, something that you wouldn’t really see unless you were watching it on T.V. or at the movies or something like that,” said Sidey. “It was like Grand Theft Auto in real life.”
On that Sunday morning, he recalls merging onto the 401 from Trenton at the same time as the OPP officer.
“That was at 11:30 a.m. We got on the 401, we merged, (the OPP officer) drove away, no lights, no sirens, no nothing. Just doing his regular, routine patrol.”
About 3 to 5 minutes later, traffic began to slow down. Sidey noticed the officer on the side of the highway.
“I saw the OPP officer sitting on the side of the highway and standing outside his vehicle trying to flag two participants down.”
The participants, two camping trailers in the right lane, were being passed by a tractor trailer in the other lane.
As the trailers passed the officer, Sidey says the officer threw his hands in the air “in disgust.”
“That’s when the back trailer decided to cut over to the left lane, and started driving off. I slowed down and I actually looked at the people in the (vehicle). I tried to get his attention but he wouldn’t even look at us,” said Sidey.
The trailer then began swaying between both the right and left lanes, and Sidey noticed its stairs were still out.
“That’s when I started (recording). I had my phone up on my dash recording, then my girlfriend took the phone to record more and put them on TikTok.”
Sidey’s video currently has over 300,000 TikTok views and over 10,000 likes.
The video shows the officer pursuing the truck towing the camping trailer in an attempt to pull the vehicle over. The trailer takes the Big Apple exit off of Hwy. 401 and into Colborne.
That trailer, according to OPP, was allegedly stolen from Northumberland.
“When we got home, around 12:30 p.m., my buddy had sent me a link saying that they were stolen trailers. I was like, what are the odds we got that on video?!”
An Ottawa man, 59, was charged with a number of offences, including flight from a peace officer, possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, two drug charges, operating an unsafe vehicle and driving a motor vehicle while under licence suspension.
The accused was released from custody and is scheduled to appear in court in Belleville on April 24.
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Peterborough Police Receive 9-1-1 Call From Person Reporting End Of Their Driveway Needs To Be Cleared Of Snow
/Peterborough Police Service reports that their communications centre just received a 9-1-1 call from a person reporting that the end of their driveway needs to be cleared after a snowplow went by.
Police remind the public to keep their calls to 9-1-1 for emergencies only.
So for example, snow at the end of your driveway doesn’t qualify as an emergency. It sucks but it’s not an emergency. Hashtag #WhenNotToCall911.
“These types of calls tie up the emergency lines. For snowplow issues kindly, contact The City of Peterborough,” the police say.
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Here's The Top 10 Intersections For Collisions In Peterborough
/Peterborough Community Police's Traffic Managment Unit has released stats so far this year for the Top 10 intersections for collisions (and what the Top 10 were last year).
Here's the breakdown...
2012 So Far
1 Sherbrooke and Clonsilla
Woman Drugged At Peterborough Bar Then Sexually Assaulted By Cab Driver
/This is just the worst story imaginable. An intoxicated woman who was apparently the victim of a date rape drug at The Junction nightclub Friday night was put in a cab by her friends to get her home safely, and the driver, in what's being called "a crime of opportunity", took her back to his residence and allegedly sexually assaulted her. The cab driver has been charged with sexual assault and abduction. Police say there is an alarming increase in the number of sexual assaults connected to date rape drugs in the city, and that women who go out together have to develop a buddy system and look after each other at all times. Apparently it is no longer safe to put them in a cab alone either. Terrible.
[CHEX TV; The Peterborough Examiner]
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PtboPics: Standoff in the Patch
/The man has been captured by police. Here's a couple photos our creative director Evan Holt took at the scene:
[Man, 43, apprehended after standoff at a Hunter St. W. apartment]