Ontario Provincial Police are looking for two suspects who stole a police cruiser in Brampton on Friday night.

Sgt. Kerry Schmidt told the media that when police spotted a vehicle driving the wrong way on the on Highway 410’s ramp onto eastbound Highway 407 at around 7:30 p.m. they followed it until it collided head on with a second vehicle.

According to a statement from the province’s Special Investigations Unit, a 37-year-old woman in the second vehicle was taken to St. Michael’s Hospital in serious condition.

The statement also added two children, aged 3 and 7, were in the vehicle that police had been pursuing. Both had minor injuries.

Police say at least one suspect involved in the collision then stole a marked police cruiser while it was stopped to assist the collision.

Officers tracked the cruiser with GPS and found it abandoned in the area of Winston Churchill Blvd. and Eglinton Ave. in Mississauga.

OPP tactical officers and Peel K-9 were searching the area as of Friday night.

Details surrounding how and why the suspects stole the vehicle are unclear.

The SIU investigates incidents involving police where death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault are reported to have occurred.

Anyone with information is being asked to contact SIU investigators at 1-800-787-8529 ext. 2290.

With files from Nick Westoll

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