VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Prosecution Service says a Nakusp Mountie who was involved in a fatal crash in November 2024 will not face charges.

In a news release, it says the officer activated police lights and sirens and began trailing a stolen truck onto Highway 6 around 3:15 p.m. Nov. 25, 2024.

It says the truck driver accelerated past a school bus, then lost control on a curve and crashed into a ditch where the vehicle flipped over.

The prosecution service says the driver died at the scene as a result of injuries sustained in the crash, while a passenger who was inside the truck was uninjured.

It says because a person was fatally injured, the Independent Investigations Office looked into the case and determined that there were reasonable grounds to believe the officer may have committed a driving offence, and it forwarded its report to the prosecution service to consider of charges.

BCPS says it has concluded that the evidence did not meet the charge assessment standard, so none were approved against the Mountie.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 12, 2025.