20 June 2007

Does new street-racing law...

Have any teeth?

The family of 48-year-old David Virgoe will have to wait to find out.
Wearing handcuffs and looking confused, Nauman Nusrat, 20 and Prabhjit Multani, 20, both of Etobicoke, are faced with several charges including criminal negligence causing death by street racing, criminal negligence causing bodily harm by street racing, dangerous operation causing death, criminal negligence causing death, and causing a common nuisance.

Const. Dave Woodford, with the OPP Highway Safety Division, said the two suspects, who remain in jail, were charged under the relatively new section of the Criminal Code that deals with street racing.

Convictions can carry a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.
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RELATED: Friends saw this coming
A friend of 19-year-old Nauman Nusrat, one of the men charged, said Mr. Nusrat was known to go at speeds of up to 180 kilometres an hour in his Pontiac Grand Am.

"He was into racing. It was just like for fun," said the 21-year-old, who did not want his name published.

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