Category: Halifax

At approximately 7:30 last night Police responded to a report that a car had driven into a business situated at 5639 Spring Garden Rd, Halifax. After arriving at the scene HRP determined that the taxi, driven by a 43 year old man, was traveling southbound on Dresden Row. He struck a 37 year old woman that was walking East bound on Spring Garden Rd and crossing Dresden Row, in a marked crosswalk. The taxi then made a wide turn Westbound onto Spring Garden Rd and accelerated over the sidewalk and into the business. The driver of the taxi received minor injuries in the crash. Both the taxi driver and the pedestrian were assessed and transported to hospital by EHS paramedics for non life threatening injuries. The driver was issued a Summary Offense ticket for failing to stop at a red light and for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk.

A man has been charged after fleeing police Thursday morning in Halifax.

At approximately 8 a.m. officers received a complaint of a man leaving the QEII Health Science Centre in an orange pick-up truck who had just assaulted a staff member and made threats towards others. Officers attempted to stop the truck in the parking lot of the hospital on Robie Street but the driver refused to stop. Police pursued the truck which continued north on Robie Street and turned left onto Quinpool Road, going the wrong way into oncoming traffic for a brief distance. This caused many vehicles to have to pullover but there were no collisions or injuries.

Police followed the truck and later located it stopped behind an apartment building in the 600 block of St. Margaret’s Bay Road with the driver still in it. The driver of the vehicle, a 53-year-old Halifax man, was arrested at the scene without incident. The man is scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court on February 28 to face charges of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, flight from police, assault and uttering threats.