A 4-year-old girl is in an Ottawa hospital tonight after a dramatic abduction and rollover near Pembroke this morning. It started in Aurora just north of Toronto where the girl was abducted from her home. Police tried to pull the vehicle over near Bancroft but the driver sped away. There were reports it was travelling at high speeds. It finally ended on Paul Martin road in the Pembroke area with the vehicle flipped upside down. Both daughter and father were injured in the crash. It would have been a terrifying few hours for this little girl and her family who reported her missing in the wee hours of the morning.

Now she's in hospital and her father is in police custody.

The silver van is clearly visible, upside down with its doors missing as emergency personnel raced to free the two occupants.

“I couldn't believe it,” says Peter Russell, who works at a building near the crash scene, “I looked out window and saw dozen of police cars and the van tipped over on the bank.”

This is where their journey ended in a violent rollover after a sharp curve on Paul Martin Road in Pembroke.

“The female patient had to be extricated from vehicle,” says Brian Leahey, the Deputy Chief of the Renfrew County Paramedics, “firefighters were on scene to do that extraction. The patient was in a child seat.”

This is where it began, at the home of 4-year-old Julia Della Cruz in Aurora, Ontario. Her aunt cleans up the glass outside the window where Julia was abducted at 4:30 in the morning.

“My message to him is just don't hurt Julia,” says Josie Tait, “whatever you do just don't hurt Julia and bring her back, okay?”

Within hours police had issued an amber alert asking people to keep an eye out for the 4-year-old and her 35-year-old father Mario Rodrigues driving a silver van. Police came close at one point

“OPP officers in the Bancroft area tried to stop vehicle,” says Cst. Shawn Peever with the Upper Ottawa Valley OPP, “the vehicle didn't stop and they discontinued their attempt to stop it. Then we received calls from people regarding speeding and aggressive driving.”

Then 10 a.m., there was an emergency call for a rollover on Paul Martin road in Pembroke.

“I saw cops all over here,” says Gary Hass, another nearby employee, “It is a bad corner.”

The Special Investigations Unit has now started an investigation into the car crash as a result of that earlier intervention to try to get that car to stop.

Both occupants had non-life threatening injuries but as a precaution little Julia was flown by air ambulance to CHEO. Rodrigues remains in a Pembroke hospital and will likely be returned to the York area to be charged.