Ottawa Citizen

Witnesses sought in crash that killed constable

- MEGHAN HURLEY mhurley@ottawaciti­zen.com twitter.com/meghan_hurley

Police appealed for witnesses on Thursday to the head-on crash that killed Const. Mike Robillard last weekend.

Robillard, 32, was on his way to work around 3:35 p.m. Sunday when his car collided with a minivan on 8th Line Road near Parkway Road.

Robillard, a husband and father of a three-year-old boy, died in the crash that injured two other people.

The 29-year-old woman driving the minivan remained in hospital Thursday in stable condition. Her seven-year-old daughter was released from hospital on Monday.

While police continued to investigat­e the cause of the crash, Robillard’s funeral arrangemen­ts were finalized.

Close friends, family and colleagues will gather on Monday at 10 a.m. to honour Robillard at the Sacred Space of the Beechwood National Memorial Centre.

A visitation will be held Sunday from 2 to 4 and from 6 to 8 p.m.

Both the visitation and the funeral are closed to the public.

Robillard most recently worked as a detective in Ottawa’s east division district investigat­ions section. Flags at police headquarte­rs have been lowered in his honour.

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