Police Charge 80-Year-Old Northern Bruce Peninsula Resident After Flagger Struck
Five days after Teddy Burak was struck at Highway 6 and Caudle Sideroad, police say they have identified the driver who left and that person now faces two provincial driving offense charges.
Grey Bruce OPP have charged an 80-year-old Northern Bruce Peninsula resident in connection with the August 13 collision that injured a road construction flagger on Highway 6.
Police announced the charges Tuesday morning. The accused faces two counts under the Highway Traffic Act: careless driving and failing to remain. OPP did not release the accused’s name or gender, and say the person is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Owen Sound at a date not yet set.
The charges are allegations that have not been tested in court.
Police describe minor injuries; the flagger described an overnight hospital stay
OPP say they received a report at approximately 2:36 p.m. on August 13 that a traffic control person had been struck at Highway 6 and Caudle Sideroad, that the vehicle left the scene, and that the flag worker sustained minor injuries.
Teddy Burak, the 59-year-old Toronto resident who was working the site, told The Current on August 15 that he was assessed at the Lion’s Head hospital, x-rayed and kept overnight, then transferred to Brightshores’ Owen Sound hospital the following day for a CT scan.
He said that scan found blood in his right lung and extensive soft tissue damage. He said his family physician ordered an additional two weeks of bedrest on top of the one week the emergency physician had prescribed.
Both charges are provincial offences
Careless driving falls under section 130 of the Highway Traffic Act and failing to remain under section 200. Neither is a criminal charge. Both are prosecuted under the Provincial Offences Act and heard by a justice of the peace, and a conviction does not produce a criminal record.
On conviction, each carries a fine of $400 to $2,000, up to six months in jail, and a licence suspension of up to two years.
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