By Connell Smith and Angela Gilbert
CBC.ca
NEW BRUNSWICK, Canda — Two men who claim their backs were broken while in the custody of New Brunswick’s Sheriff Services are now suing the province.
A CBC News investigation has uncovered new details about a late winter crash in 2012 where a sheriff’s van, carrying three inmates to court, left an icy northern New Brunswick highway and flipped at least three times while going over an embankment. At least one of the inmates was not wearing a seatbelt and all the passengers were injured.
In an accident report obtained by CBC News, the sheriff’s officer driving the van writes that when the van stopped flipping and came to rest, he heard a voice from the back of the van saying, “Get us the f--- out of here!!”
The men in the back were not all belted in. New Brunswick doesn’t have a policy mandating the use of seatbelts for transporting inmates. Despite thousands of transports a year, in all weather, it doesn’t have a policy on driving in poor weather or bad road conditions either.
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