A teenage driver has now been arrested and charged following a car crash last April.
The violent crash sent his 17-year-old passenger to hospital, suffering from head trauma, facial fractures, brain swelling, a fractured arm, and possible eye damage.
The crash happened on South West Marine Drive at 3 a.m. on April 12, 2015, when the driver crashed a Mercedes into someone’s front yard near 57 Avenue. They were in the car, injured, for almost an hour before someone found them and called for help.
Both were taken to hospital, but the driver was treated and released the following day.
After an extensive investigation, the VPD Collision Investigation Unit found the driver was allegedly travelling in excess of five times the speed limit when he lost control of the vehicle. The speed limit is 50 km/h so he was driving over 250 km/h.
Nineteen-year-old Yue Hui Wang has been arrested and charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm. He had returned to China and was only arrested for this crime at Vancouver Airport when he returned to attend his citizenship ceremony.
Wang has now been ordered to surrender his passport and has conditions not to be found in the driver’s seat of any vehicle.
He has been released from custody until his next court appearance.
He missed his citizenship ceremony. The status of his citizenship has been put on hold until his criminal trial is resolved.
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