The family of the three people killed in a wrong-way Highway 401 crash involving Durham police has filed a lawsuit against the officers involved, the Durham Regional Police Services Board, and the estate of the driver who struck them.

The April 2024 collision claimed the lives of three-month-old Aditya and the boy’s grandparents, Manivannan Srinivasapillai, 60, and Mahalakshmi Ananthakrishnan, 55, after a cargo van, driven by 21-year-old Gagandeep Singh, entered the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 travelling westbound. Gokulnath Manivannan was driving his son and parents at the time of the collision.

Singh, who was also killed in the crash, was fleeing from responding officers following a reported robbery at an LCBO in Clarington.

The statement of claim, filed this week by Manivannan and

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