Does a police officer need to have his siren activated before he strikes a pedestrian?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kaila v. Sekhon, 2006 BCSC 1654 (CanLII):
In McKay v. British Columbia, [1996] B.C.J. No. 1779 (B.C.S.C.), the defendant police officer was driving north in a southbound lane when his vehicle collided with the plaintiff pedestrian. The key issue was whether the defendant’s siren was activated soon enough to give the plaintiff sufficient warning. In the present case, the defendant was not driving the wrong way or otherwise in an inherently dangerous manner which required him to take extraordinary precaution, such as sounding his horn or slowing to a crawl.
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