Winnipeg police have laid charges against a driver involved in a fatal crash during a police pursuit on Tuesday.

A 36-year-old female passenger died when the van she was in collided with a pickup truck at the intersection of Boyd Avenue and Sinclair Street.

At 3:50 p.m., patrol officers tried to pull a GMC Envoy over for a traffic stop near Boyd Avenue and Arlington Street. The van sped away, heading west on Boyd, when it hit the northbound truck on Sinclair.

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The Envoy kept driving west on Boyd, hitting another parked vehicle, causing the Envoy to flip. The driver fled on foot, but was later arrested.

In addition to killing the woman, the crash injured five other people, including the driver of the pickup truck, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Three other passengers in the van – a teenage male, a teenage female, and an adult male – along with the 20-year-old male driver also suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Vlad Yasenyuk was driving home from work, minutes away from his house when his red truck was hit by the speeding GMC Envoy.

"In the corner of my eye I saw the front of the vehicle, it was coming super-fast and boom, I’m in the air spinning and stuff flying all over the truck," Yasenyuk said. "I was thinking about my family, is my son going to be without a dad?”

Yasenyuck’s truck landed on its side, he managed to crawl out and call his wife.

"The only thing that was going through my mind is, I hope he's okay and I hope I am still going to have a husband and I hope my son is still going to have a dad," said his wife, Jasmine Yasenyuk.

Yasenyuk escaped with whiplash and a minor brain bleed and is recovering at home

He’s glad the speeding vehicle hit his truck and not anyone else.

"Because it was school hour and it was just scary to think like it could have been a lot worse if they would have ran for longer you just never know what could have happened," he added.

Police charged the driver of the van with multiple offences, including impaired driving causing death, impaired driving causing bodily harm, dangerous driving causing death, dangerous driving causing bodily harm, flight from police resulting in death, and flight from police resulting in bodily harm.

Since the crash happened during a police pursuit, the Independent Investigations Unit has taken jurisdiction over the case, as part of their mandate to investigate all police incidents involving fatalities.

With files from Emad Agahi.