An employee was seriously injured after a stolen taxi crashed into a parked police cruiser in Pickering, Durham Regional Police said.
Police received a call about a stolen taxi van from Whitby shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday.
About twenty minutes later, the taxi collided with a police cruiser that was parked on the side of Concession Road 9, near side line 12 in Pickering, police said.
He was an officer inside the cruiser at the time of the crash and suffered serious injuries but was not life-threatening.
The suspect also received serious but non-life-threatening injuries and was transported by Ornge air ambulance to a hospital in Toronto.
Police said the taxi was not being chased at the time of the collision.
Police did not provide information on the charges.
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