Overnight Villeray accident kills taxi driver

WATCH ABOVE: Raw footage of the fatal accident in Villeray.

MONTREAL – One person is dead following an accident in Villeray, just off the Metropolitan.

A taxi and a car collided at the corner of Cremazie boulevard and Saint-Hubert street around 2:20 a.m.

“The 25-year-old taxi driver passed away. He was declared dead onsite,” said Jean-Pierre Brabant with the Montreal police.

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The 19-year-old driver of the other vehicle was arrested.

“According to witnesses, he was driving north on Saint-Hubert speeding,” said Brabant.

“There were also three passengers in the car that were injured.”

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He is facing charges of dangerous driving causing death.

Cremazie boulevard is closed from Saint-Hubert to Christophe-Colomb streets.