...the kid, was supposed to show up for drunk driving charges himself May 30th.
http://www.torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2006/03/08/1478050-sun.html
Paul Lobsinger listened to the speeches yesterday announcing a new program to nail drunk drivers.
But the mind of the veteran Toronto traffic detective was preoccupied with the pre-dawn visit he had made to a Mississauga family to notify them that their son and brother wasn't coming home.
Ever.
Ravi Mahdai, 17, is dead because of an alleged drunk driver.
He suffered massive head injuries when the westbound Ford Explorer he was riding in struck the concrete median on the Gardiner Expressway near the Lake Shore Blvd. cutoff at 10:22 p.m. Monday.
3 DIE EVERY DAY
Mahdai, who was riding in the back seat and was wearing a seat belt, was one of three people who, statistics show, die each day in Canada because of impaired driving.
Mahdai himself was to appear in a Brampton court on May 30 on a drinking and driving-related charge.
Drunk driving is the most common cause of criminal death in Canada.
The driver, Dawn Marie Cox, 37, of Mississauga, is charged with impaired driving causing death and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death.
Her 27-year-old boyfriend, sitting in the front passenger seat, wasn't injured.
"I think sometimes people should come with me when I have to take a ride to the family of someone who's been killed," Lobsinger said. "Someone who's been killed needlessly.
"When I knock on the door at 3:30 in the morning -- and mom and dad are there, little brother, little sister, older sister -- I have to tell them that their son is not coming home."
Lobsinger said the family spoke to Mahdai on the telephone about 20 minutes before the fatal crash.
"When you go to these scenes, every officer, every ambulance attendant, every firefighter, every citizen who stopped on the Gardiner (Monday) night to render assistance, a little piece of them died right there with that 17-year-old boy," he said.
"That takes a piece out of you. And having to tell someone that their relative is not coming home, another little piece goes," Lobsinger said. "Piece after piece after piece after piece. I don't know how many pieces people contain, and the grief I feel is nothing compared to the grief of that family and his friends."
http://www.torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2006/03/08/1478050-sun.html
Paul Lobsinger listened to the speeches yesterday announcing a new program to nail drunk drivers.
But the mind of the veteran Toronto traffic detective was preoccupied with the pre-dawn visit he had made to a Mississauga family to notify them that their son and brother wasn't coming home.
Ever.
Ravi Mahdai, 17, is dead because of an alleged drunk driver.
He suffered massive head injuries when the westbound Ford Explorer he was riding in struck the concrete median on the Gardiner Expressway near the Lake Shore Blvd. cutoff at 10:22 p.m. Monday.
3 DIE EVERY DAY
Mahdai, who was riding in the back seat and was wearing a seat belt, was one of three people who, statistics show, die each day in Canada because of impaired driving.
Mahdai himself was to appear in a Brampton court on May 30 on a drinking and driving-related charge.
Drunk driving is the most common cause of criminal death in Canada.
The driver, Dawn Marie Cox, 37, of Mississauga, is charged with impaired driving causing death and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death.
Her 27-year-old boyfriend, sitting in the front passenger seat, wasn't injured.
"I think sometimes people should come with me when I have to take a ride to the family of someone who's been killed," Lobsinger said. "Someone who's been killed needlessly.
"When I knock on the door at 3:30 in the morning -- and mom and dad are there, little brother, little sister, older sister -- I have to tell them that their son is not coming home."
Lobsinger said the family spoke to Mahdai on the telephone about 20 minutes before the fatal crash.
"When you go to these scenes, every officer, every ambulance attendant, every firefighter, every citizen who stopped on the Gardiner (Monday) night to render assistance, a little piece of them died right there with that 17-year-old boy," he said.
"That takes a piece out of you. And having to tell someone that their relative is not coming home, another little piece goes," Lobsinger said. "Piece after piece after piece after piece. I don't know how many pieces people contain, and the grief I feel is nothing compared to the grief of that family and his friends."
