York University student killed in Mississauga street-racing crash
Posted February 6, 2018 5:26 am.
Last Updated February 6, 2018 5:50 pm.
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A 19-year-old Milton woman is dead and two people have been arrested after a street-racing crash in Mississauga, police say.
Peel police said around 11 p.m. Monday, a group of seven people left a restaurant, getting into two separate cars. It’s alleged the drivers of the Mitsubishi Eclipse and Ford Fusion then started racing in the westbound lanes of Eglinton Avenue West and made slight contact near Mavis Road.
The Eclipse driver lost control, went up over the centre median and across the eastbound lanes, and crashed into a traffic light pole.
Rabab Arshad, who was a passenger in the back seat, was ejected from the car and died at the scene. The other passenger, a 21-year-old woman, was taken to a trauma centre with serious, non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver, Muhammad Daniyal Khan, 20, of Brampton, was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police arrested Khan and the Fusion driver, 22-year-old Ashim Khan, of Milton, charged them with eight offences each, including criminal negligence causing death by street racing and dangerous driving causing death by street racing.
Arshad’s family told 680 NEWS she studied Human Resources at York University and was coming home with friends after writing an exam when the crash happened.
Police are appealing to witnesses, or anyone who may have dash cam footage from the area at the time of the incident, to contact them.
