Eight injured, two critically, after car flips onto sidewalk in downtown Toronto: police

Eight people were injured, including two boys who remain in critical condition, after a two-vehicle collision in downtown Toronto Sunday afternoon that saw one car pushed off the road and flipped onto the sidewalk into a group of pedestrians.

It happened at the intersection of Richmond and Yonge streets just after 2 p.m. Two cars collided, sending one vehicle off the roadway. The vehicle flipped “onto a number of pedestrians” who were walking on the sidewalk, police said.

Const. Tony Macias told CP24 at the scene that, in total, eight patients were taken to hospital with injuries.

“Both vehicles were travelling westbound. One of the vehicles cut into the lane of the other vehicle, causing it to flip, due to the impact (and) slide,” Macias said. “Seven of the parties that were transported to hospital were standing on the intersection over there when the vehicle collided with them.”

One witness told CP24 that the rolled-over SUV had actually “launched in the air” and was “turned on its side like a missile” before colliding with the pedestrians.