A woman suffered serious injuries after a collision involving a Winnipeg police vehicle and a cyclist in downtown Winnipeg last week.<\/p>\n
The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba (IIU) is now investigating the collision, which happened around 8:49 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, at Portage Avenue and Garry Street.<\/p>\n
According to information provided to the IIU by the Winnipeg Police Service, officers were responding to a call for assistance and travelling westbound on Portage Avenue.<\/p>\n
Police said the vehicle entered the intersection at Garry Street on a green light at the same time a woman riding northbound in the Garry Street bike lane entered the intersection.<\/p>\n
The police vehicle and cyclist collided, knocking the woman to the ground.<\/p>\n
Officers got out of the vehicle and provided first aid before the cyclist was taken to hospital. The IIU said she was treated for a fractured clavicle and bruising.<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Police Service notified the IIU about the incident on Friday, Aug. 8.<\/p>\n
The IIU is required to investigate because the collision involving a police vehicle resulted in a serious injury.<\/p>\n
Anyone who witnessed the collision or has information or video footage that could help investigators is asked to contact the IIU toll-free at 1-844-667-6060.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman suffered serious injuries after a collision involving a Winnipeg police vehicle and a cyclist in downtown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-853357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853357","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=853357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}