A tractor allegedly participating in a protest convoy was flipped by Canadian police, sending the driver to hospital
November 27, 2023 at 11:58
One man was arrested and taken to the hospital after a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) highway patrol appeared to use the PIT maneuver on a tractor driving on Highway 1 in British Columbia.
The severity of the tractor driver’s injuries are not known at this time, however the Lower Mainland’s Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction service, which handles forensic reconstruction of collisions that cause death or serious injury, was called to the scene.
Police said they intercepted the tractor while responding to a different call. CTV reports that the driver may have been involved in a protest convoy launched by a group that objects to teaching sexual orientation and gender identity topics in the province’s schools.
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Video of the incident shows the tractor speeding down the highway with an RCMP cruiser immediately to its right. The cruiser appears to drive into the tractor, then the farm implement appears to turn into the police vehicle.
As they reach an off-ramp, they collide again, and the cruiser slows slightly, causing the tractor’s rear wheel to hop up, and the back end to shift leftward. As the tractor turns, it rolls over onto its left side, then onto its roof, before falling back down again onto its left side.
A police officer then gets out of his car, and moves towards the tractor, pulling the driver out from under it, and then appearing to put handcuffs on him. Following the incident, paramedics could be seen wheeling the tractor’s driver into an ambulance.
It remains unclear what caused the RCMP to start chasing the tractor down, nor has the nature of the call it was initially responding to been publicized. Photos of the police cruiser show that its left side was also badly damaged in the incident.