Police watchdog will investigate after suspected hit-and-run in Halifax – Halifax

Halifax police say Nova Scotia’s police watchdog will investigate an alleged hit-and-run Saturday involving a truck followed by city police.

Police said officers followed a pickup truck that did not have a license plate after it fled a parking lot in Dartmouth at a high rate of speed.

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Police said the truck did not stop when the police vehicle activated its lights and sirens, and struck another vehicle in the intersection.

A 58-year-old man driving the other vehicle suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital.

The truck, described as a black Ford F-150, continued on to the A. Murray Mackay Bridge connecting Dartmouth to the Halifax peninsula and has not been located.

Police referred the incident to the province’s Serious Incident Response Team.