

Joshua Freeman, CP24.com





An 88-year-old woman has been pronounced dead after two vehicles collided at a high rate of speed in Etobicoke, sending one of them into a house.

The vehicles collided at around 10:30 a.m. near Kipling Avenue and Birmingham Street.

One of the vehicles rolled over and one ended up in a house, police said.

The elderly woman was pronounced dead at the scene, Toronto Paramedic Services said.

Const. Clint Stibbe told CP24 it appears she was in one of the vehicles.

“As I understand it there was nobody at the house at the time of the incident,” Stibbe said.

Stibbe said it is still too early in the investigation to say exactly what happened, but it appears from the damage that speeds higher than the 50 kilometre-per-hour limit may have been a factor.

“I think it’s safe to say that the speeds involved here were well above that,” Stibbe said.

He said the structural integrity of the home will have to be checked before occupants are allowed to return.

“I think we’re very fortunate that more people weren’t injured in this collision,” Stibbe said.

The intersection of Kipling Avenue and Birmingham Street has been closed as a result of the collision. A stretch of Birmingham Street has also been closed from Kipling Avenue to 22nd Street.