Man Has Seizure While Driving

Police attend the scene of a collision in the west end of Toronto on Thurs., March 31, 2022. Toronto police say a prohibited driver had what appeared to be a seizure behind the wheel, then got back in his car and crashed on Thursday evening, killing himself and two pedestrians.

Commuter in fatal Toronto crash had seizure backside the wheel, kept driving: police

TORONTO - A driver who ran a blood-red low-cal, killing himself and 2 pedestrians on a busy Toronto road, had what appeared to be a seizure during a previous standoff moments earlier merely got back in his vehicle and kept driving, city police said Friday.

The man was never supposed to exist behind the wheel, police said, noting he had thrice been banned from driving.

"We remember information technology'south of import that the public empathise that the individual who was driving this vehicle, who caused this collision, was in fact prohibited from driving on any road in this country," Supt. Scott Baptist said of Th dark's fatal crash.

The 36-year-old man – who police don't intend to identify publicly – was discipline to a Canada-wide Criminal Lawmaking driving prohibition and a provincial driver'south licence medical intermission, as well as an boosted administrative provincial driver'southward licence suspension, Baptist said.

Baptist wouldn't give the reasons for the man'south driving bans, but noted that he had a medical episode less than 15 minutes before the collision that ended his life.

The man first crashed into a parked van on Thursday evening, and people in the expanse smashed through his window to try to help, as he was unresponsive. Baptist said witnesses reported that the man appeared to exist having a seizure.

The witnesses chosen police, simply before officers could make it at the scene of the minor crash, the driver got back in his vehicle and sped away, Baptist said.

The second collision happened on Lakeshore Boulevard West just 2.5 kilometres from the first, where the man's Cadillac was travelling "at higher-than-normal speed."

"The Cadillac failed to stop for the ruby traffic signal, entered the intersection at speed and struck the two pedestrians inside the crosswalk," Baptist said.

"It continued through the intersection without braking and collided with a parked flatbed trailer located at the eastward side of the intersection in the closed lane of traffic."

The two pedestrians – a 75-year-quondam human and 43-year-old woman – too equally the driver died at the scene.

Baptist said numerous witnesses have already spoken with constabulary, simply officers are all the same hoping to talk to anyone else who may have seen either crash. They're too on the hunt for video surveillance of either collision.

This study by The Canadian Printing was first published April one, 2022.

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