A 26-year-old ATV driver is facing charges after failing to stop for Ontario Provincial Police officers on Young Street in Sables-Spanish Rivers Township, crashing into and damaging a police vehicle.
Members of the Manitoulin Detachment of the OPP were dealing with an abandoned vehicle in the area around 9 p.m. on Dec. 25 when they observed a speeding side-by-side ATV fail to stop for a stop sign, police said in a news release Tuesday.
The local driver then refused to stop for police, colliding with their vehicle and fleeing the scene, police said.
“The driver was later located and arrested.”
The accused has been charged with dangerous operation, flight from a peace officer, disobeying a stop sign, preforming a stunt with a motor vehicle, failing to remain at an accident and driving a motor vehicle without a licence.
He is scheduled to appear in court in Espanola on Jan. 16.
None of the allegations has been proven in court.
OPP Const. Jessica Gilbertson told CTV News in an email, no one was injured in the incident.
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