One dead after early morning high-speed crash in Etobicoke
Posted March 19, 2023 7:43 am.
Last Updated March 19, 2023 4:07 pm.
One person is dead after an early morning high-speed crash in Etobicoke.
Police say a silver SUV and a black Ford F150 pickup truck were travelling westbound on Dundas Street at a high rate of speed when they lost control and collided with a “fixed object” on the roadway approaching Nottingham Drive.
The SUV crashed into the backyard of a residential home, killing the 37-year-old driver.
The pickup truck rolled over and came to a stop on the roadway. The driver, 37-year-old Christian Salazar of Toronto, has been charged with dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
A passenger in the pickup truck was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
COLLISION:
Dundas St W & Nottingham Dr
4:38am
– 2 veh collision
– 1 veh hit tree, 2nd veh rolled over
– 1 person deceased at scene
– 1 trans to hospital with serious but non-life-thr injuries
– 1 in custody
– Dundas St W closed between Old Oak Dr & Briarly Ln#GO609960
^se— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) March 19, 2023
