Driver charged in deadly five-car crash near High Park was caught driving while impaired three weeks earlier: police

A 38-year-old Burlington man charged in connection with a deadly five-car crash near Toronto’s High Park last month was caught driving while impaired three weeks before the collision, CTV News Toronto has learned.

Police said that at about 5 p.m. on Oct. 12, a BMW sedan was heading southbound on Parkside Drive “at a high rate of speed” when it struck a vehicle that was basically stationary due to traffic.

That impacted vehicle then struck a number of other vehicles in front of it.

Fatima and Valdemar Avila were sitting in the vehicle that was struck from behind.

Valdemar died at the scene and Fatima passed away after paramedics brought her to hospital.