SaskatchewanA Saskatoon man says he’s lucky to be alive after his work truck was hit by speeding car on University Bridge this week. Erratic driver admitted to hospital under the Mental Health Services ActJeremy Warren · CBC News · Posted: Oct 17, 2025 5:50 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours agoIt took hours to clear the debris from the University Bridge in Saskatoon after a crash on Wednesday morning. (Dan Zakreski/CBC)Wajid Khan believes a slight turn of his truck’s steering wheel saved his life on University Bridge this week.Khan, the maintenance manager for Motion Fitness locations in Saskatoon, is often in his 2016 Ford F-150 driving from gym to gym.On Wednesday morning, Khan hit the road to drop off his son at Saskatchewan Polytechnic before a planned visit to the Motion Fitness location in the Blairmore neighbourhood.They were heading west on University Bridge when Khan spotted an oncoming car speeding and swerving through traffic.“It was heading directly to my lane so I just moved just a little on the right side just to avoid the collision,” Khan said in an interview on Friday.“Had I not moved to the right, it would have been a head on collision … that would have been very, very fatal so, thank God, that I moved a little.”The crash on the bridge ended a police chase that started around 8:45 a.m. Wednesday when reports came in about an erratic driver. Police tried stopping the driver in the City Park neighbourhood, but the car sped off and didn’t fully stop until hitting Khan’s truck.After the crash, Saskatoon police arrested a man, 37, who was originally charged with dangerous driving, evading police and impaired driving. On Thursday, he was released without charges and admitted to hospital under the Mental Health Services Act.WATCH | Dashcam shows moment driver of car hits truck:Dashcam shows driver hit truck on University BridgeDashcam video shows the moment a black car being driven erratically hit a truck on the University Bridge in Saskatoon on Wednesday morning.It didn’t take long before a dash-cam recording of the crash circulated on social media. Khan’s friends and co-workers sent him the video, and he’s watched it, even though it triggers flashbacks.“I just go in that frame of mind for a fraction of a second because it took at most four to five seconds, not more than that,” Khan said. “That was such a horrible time that I can’t forget it in my life.”Khan and his son, 18, suffered only minor injuries, but Khan has some lingering knee and neck pain he is closely monitoring for long-term effects.He’s concerned about his son, who is learning to drive.“My son, he’s a new driver and I just got him a learner’s licence. Now, he says, ‘I don’t want to drive. I’m scared,’” Khan said.“The trauma that he has, I’m worried about that one. How [do I] bring back his confidence in driving?”Khan wondered whether the police chase funneled the erratic driver onto the bridge instead of steering him away from heavy traffic.“Instead of chasing him like this, they should have adopted another strategy to make him cool down or stop somewhere rather than chasing him because he was not mentally OK,” Khan said.ABOUT THE AUTHORJeremy Warren is a reporter in Saskatoon. You can reach him at jeremy.warren@cbc.ca.
Saskatoon man recounts brush with death in collision on University Bridge
