A 20-year-old man is in critical condition in hospital after the Mercedes he was driving slammed into a tree a high rate of speed in Scarborough late on Sunday night.
Police say a white 2008 Mercedes CLS sedan was heading southbound on McCowan Road near Big Red Avenue, north of Finch Avenue East, around 10:54 p.m. when its driver attempted to pass another vehicle and lost control.
The car slammed into a tree trunk and the driver and three other passengers, two women aged 21 and 25, and a 23-year-old man, were trapped.
Firefighters say they spent the next 30 minutes extricating the passengers from the car.
The driver was taken to hospital in critical condition while the three other occupants were taken to hospital in serious but non-life-threatening condition.
A family friend told CP24 the vehicle belonged to the driver's uncle and the four occupants were just heading home from a gathering a short distance away from the collision scene.
The southbound lanes of McCowan Road reopened at about 6 a.m. Monday.
