{"id":839536,"date":"2026-08-01T03:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839536\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T03:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:21:16","slug":"driver-of-green-lamborghini-involved-in-violent-street-racing-crash-in-scarborough-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839536\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver of green Lamborghini involved in violent street racing crash in Scarborough arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police have made an arrest in an alleged street racing incident near Port Union two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say a green Lamborghini and a white Mercedes E-Class were \u201cracing at high speed\u201d along Highway 2A near Meadowvale Road around 9:30 a.m. on the morning of July 17 when the Mercedes lost control, struck a white Ford F-150 pickup, left the roadway, and struck a tree.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-year-old female driver of the Mercedes and a 24-year-old male passenger were taken to the hospital in life-threatening condition. The driver of the pickup, a 44-year-old man, and an 11-month-old boy suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the green Lamborghini, which fled the scene, was eventually located and police have charged 42-year-old Akil Gordon Heywood with two counts of dangerous operation of a conveyance causing bodily harm, failing to stop at the scene of an accident and stunt driving.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police have made an arrest in an alleged street racing incident near Port Union two weeks ago.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-839536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}