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Charges have been laid in connection with a deadly crash in a southeast parking lot last August.

James Robert Farkas, 43, faces two counts of criminal negligence causing death after the pickup truck he was driving collided with a car in the parking lot of the Real Canadian Superstore on 130th Avenue S.E., on Aug. 2, 2017.

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The crash killed Ritvik Bale, 20, who was at the wheel of his red Scion FR-S, and his 24-year-old sister, Rashmi, who died later in hospital.

At the scene, police told media the pickup truck — which carried the markings of a Calgary pool and spa company — was travelling northbound on 46th Street S.E. at high speed when it left the road and struck Bale’s car broadside as it was turning out of the supermarket parking lot.

The force of the crash sent both vehicles across a grassy median, colliding with other parked vehicles before coming to rest.

Farkas was transported to hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries.

The crash occurred just steps from the scene of the May 21, 2017, double-shooting that killed Colin Reitberger and Anees Amr.

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