\u2018No grounds\u2019 for charges in Surrey e-scooter injuries: IIO<\/p>\n
Published 1:00 pm Friday, July 24, 2026<\/p>\n
The Independent Investigations Office has found no reasonable grounds to believe an officer\u2019s action or inaction resulted in injuries suffered last October by a man who fell from an e-scooter in Whalley.<\/p>\n
According to a public report issued Thursday, July 23, by the Surrey-based police watchdog, the incident occurred around 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 12, 2025, after Metro Vancouver Police officers attempted to stop a man near the Surrey Central SkyTrain station, after the rider \u201cbarely avoided colliding with the police vehicle and then mounted the curb.\u201d<\/p>\n
The officers \u201cconsidered that he was driving in a dangerous manner,\u201d and tried to pull him over, the report states.<\/p>\n
The man got away but was found later by police near the intersection of 104 Avenue and 133A Street, a news release issued at the time states.<\/p>\n
According to witness officers cited in the IIO report, the scooter rider was seen \u201criding in and out of traffic \u2018at speed.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
Shortly after, the \u2018subject officer\u2019 drove up beside the man in an unmarked police vehicle and the officer riding as passenger directed him to stop. In the course of the interaction, the man fell and suffered injuries \u2013 later found to include a fractured skull and elbows, the report continues.<\/p>\n
According to the report, the subject officer had the vehicle\u2019s lights and siren on at the time of the incident, and the rider \u2013 who was not wearing a helmet \u2013 \u201cwas offered medical assistance \u2018ad nauseam,\u2019\u201d witness officers told investigators.<\/p>\n
At Surrey Memorial Hospital later that day, the rider was diagnosed with injuries \u201cincluding fractured skull, fractured elbows and a suspected orbital bone fracture,\u201d the report continues.<\/p>\n
Medical reports indicate he reported being hit by a police vehicle, but also that he was \u201cunable to recall exact events.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a brief statement at the hospital the rider initially alleged that he was not provided first aid or offered an ambulance, but then said he did not remember whether that happened, the report states.<\/p>\n
Another witness officer told IIO investigators that the police vehicle was six feet or more away from the scooter at the time of the incident, and that the rider appeared to do a \u201cshoulder shrug\u201d when police shouted at him to stop, before the scooter\u2019s front wheel contacted the curb and he was thrown to the ground.<\/p>\n
Another officer reported that the rider said he did not want to be seen by paramedics and that he told officers he was \u201cas high as f**k.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an examination of the SUV, IIO investigators found no evidence of contact with the scooter or the rider, the report continues.<\/p>\n
The subject officer did not provide an account of the incident.<\/p>\n
The IIO report notes that \u201con their face,\u201d the rider\u2019s allegations \u201ccould amount to potentially unjustified and unlawful driving behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile it is not possible to reconcile the opposing accounts with certainty, it is significant that the AP has acknowledged uncertainty in his recall of the event,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsidering also that no physical evidence was found indicating contact between the SO\u2019s vehicle and AP\u2019s scooter, the evidence as a whole does not support the AP\u2019s allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of BC investigates all police-related incidents that result in serious harm or death, whether or not there is any allegation of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018No grounds\u2019 for charges in Surrey e-scooter injuries: IIO Published 1:00 pm Friday, July 24, 2026 The Independent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-824737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}