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Man charged with dangerous driving causing death after fatal Etobicoke crash

Oneman is dead and another is facing charges of dangerous driving after a fatal crash in Etobicoke early Sunday thatinvolveda stolen vehicle, police say.

37-year-old driver of Ford Escape SUV pronounced dead at scene of collision

A fence enclosing a residential backyard is broken and pieces are scattered on the ground nearby.
Toronto police say a silver Ford Escape SUV crashed into this Etobicoke backyard early Sunday morning. The 37-year-old male driver of the SUV died, while another 37-year-old man who was driving a Ford F150 pick up truck that crashed on the roadway nearby is facing two charges for dangerous driving. (CBC)

Oneman is dead and another is facing charges ofdangerous drivingin connection witha fatal crash in Etobicoke early Sunday thatinvolveda stolen vehicle, police say.

Toronto police say officers responded to a collisiononDundas StreetWest near Nottingham Drive shortly after 4:30 a.m.

A police source told CBC Toronto that the incident started outside a bank on College Street near Spadina Avenue, where a woman got out of her Ford Escape SUV andinto her boyfriend's nearby Ford F150 pickuptruck. She had left the SUV running, and that's when someone got into hervehicle and took off, the source said.

Police say thepickup truckwas following aSUVwestbound "at a high rate of speed"when both vehicles lost control and crashed into "fixed objects" on the road.

The Escape ended up in the backyard of a residential home,police say,while the F150 came to a stop on the road.

A 37-year-old man from Toronto who was driving the Escape died at the scene. A passenger travelling in the F150 was transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The police source said the woman injured her foot.

The driver of the F150, a 27-year-old man from Toronto,was arrested and charged with dangerous operation of a conveyance causing death and dangerous operationof a conveyance causing bodily harm, police say.

The man is expected to appear in court in May.

Police are asking anyone who may have security or dash camera footage of the areato contact investigators.

Clarifications

  • Police originally said the driver of the pickup truck who was charged was 37 years old. Investigators later said he was 27 years old.
    Mar 20, 2023 10:02 AM ET