Man, woman killed in North York crash
Two people are dead and two more are recovering in hospital after a car collided with several pedestrians near Bathurst St. and Steeles Ave. Wednesday morning.
The 50-year-old driver of a Toyota Corolla driving westbound on Steeles lost control of his vehicle just west of Bathurst at 11:35 a.m. and mounted the north curb before hitting three pedestrians.
The driver was declared dead after being rushed to hospital while one of the pedestrians, an 87-year-old woman, was pronounced dead on scene.
The two injured pedestrians, a man and a woman walking together at the time, are recovering at Sunnybrook Hospital.
“I am in shock,” Jonathan Berger, who was sitting on a patio nearby when he heard the collision, said. “I was in Second Cup having a coffee. We heard a car crash just south of us, so we went over to the car.”
He spotted the elderly victim lying by the car.
“She was on the ground and her face was profuse with blood, and she was lying there breathing very very weakly, blood coming from her mouth, nose and eyes. She wasn’t able to speak, she was just conscious,” Berger said.
Roadside assault capped busy Tuesday for Jackson cops
For Jackson Police, Tuesday started with two theft suspects allegedly getting caught in the act, progressed to having an out-of-control car sail through the front window of a beauty salon, and ended with a county-wide vehicle hunt for six to seven suspects of a brutal assault — and all of the incidents happened in or around the same Jackson shopping center.The action got kicked off early in the morning when a Jackson police officer, who had been working the night shift, decided to do one last round of business checks before his shift ended. Officer Jose Arevalos pulled into the Jackson Creek Plaza and reportedly witnessed two men blatantly stealing sidewalk sale items from the front of CVS Pharmacy. Arevalos confronted the suspects, determining one was 32-year-old Jason Holder of Sutter Creek, and the other was 28-year-old Jason Oberly of Jackson. The officer arrested Oberly on a charge of receiving known stolen property and violation of probation and Holder for receiving known stolen property.
