TRAFFIC officers investigate rollover on Burnhamthorpe Road. Photo courtesy CityNews.
Area residents say they were startled by a loud crash and then police sirens.
A search is now underway for a driver of a vehicle who fled the scene of a fatal crash on October 15 in the Burnhamthorpe Road and Shaver Avenue area, just west of Islington.
Toronto Police were called around 12 p.m. for reports of a loud crash.
INVESTIGATORS are searching for this vehicle. Police photo.
Investigators say a Gold Pontiac Montana van and a black sedan were travelling westbound on Burnhamthorpe at a high rate of speed when the van collided with a Honda CRV that was going south on Shaver, causing that vehicle to flip over.
The driver of the sedan fled the scene of the crash.
The driver of the CRV, a 59-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the van was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Police released surveillance images of the black sedan and are asking anyone with dashcam footage or additional information to contact them.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-1900, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, online on our Facebook Leave a Tip page, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).