The RCMP says it is investigating a crash following an attempted traffic stop near Liverpool, N.S., early Saturday morning.
Officers were conducting a traffic enforcement on Milton Road in Milton around 1 a.m. when they saw a Volkswagen Golf approach the police checkpoint.
Police say the driver made “an abrupt U-turn” and headed north on Highway 8.
One of the officers left the checkpoint to attempt a traffic stop.
Police say the car left the road and ended up on its roof.
The driver suffered life-threatening injuries. The 24-year-old Sable River man was taken to hospital by EHS.
The passenger, a 25-year-old woman from East Green Harbour, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A section of Highway 8 was closed for several hours as a collision reconstructionist attended the scene. It reopened around 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
