Editor's Note: Especially scary is the increase in female drivers stupid enough to drive drunk. Also, you fellow SUV drivers need to release that a large, gas-guzzling vehicle does not make you invincible and immune to death.
Traffic Fatality #13/2006, Alcohol-related collision takes life of 17-year-old boy
Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 9:26 AM
Traffic Services
416-808-1900
On Monday, March 6, 2006, at about 10:22 p.m. it is alleged that a Ford SUV, being driven by a 37-year-old woman, was travelling westbound on the Fred Gardiner Expressway, east of Parklawn Road, when she lost control of the vehicle.
It is further alleged that the SUV struck another westbound vehicle and then spun out of control and came to rest against the jersey wall. A third vehicle sustained minor damage in trying to avoid the SUV.
The only rear-seat passenger in the SUV, a 17-year-old boy from Mississauga, was pronounced dead at the scene, while the driver and front seat passenger received minor injuries.
The driver of one of the other vehicles also sustained a minor injury and did not require medical attention.
The driver of the Ford SUV was placed under arrest and charged with two criminal offences.
Dawn Marie Cox, 37, of Mississauga, is charged with:
1) Impaired Driving Causing Death
2) Dangerous Operation of a Motor Vehicle Causing Death
She is scheduled to appear in courtroom 501 at College Park Courts, 444 Yonge Street, Tuesday, March 7, 2006, at 10 a.m.
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