By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, July 8 (IANS) Two Indian Canadian young men were killed in street car racing on a busy inner-city highway here Monday night.

Adam Bhagirathi, 21, who was driving his Nissan sports car, and his friend Geetesh Singh, 20, were killed when their vehicle spun out of control while racing with an unknown white car.

After hitting the guardrail, their two-seater car flipped over, killing Bhagirathi and Singh.

While the two men, who were friends since school days, were pronounced dead on the scene of the crash, a 21-year-old woman, who was with them and has not been identified, survived the crash.

She has been admitted to hospital with serious injuries.

Since it was a two-seater sports car, police said the woman was reportedly sitting in the lap of Singh who was in the passenger seat.

Geetesh Singh and the woman, who were not wearing seat belt, were flung out of the vehicle under the impact of the crash.

Singh was an undergraduate student at the local Ryerson University.

The deadly crash closed Toronto’s busiest Don Valley Parkway highway for hours as police extricated the bodies from the wreckage and rushed the woman to hospital.

Though police didn’t identify the Indian family, the ill-fated Nissan sports car is registered in the name of Roma Bhagirathi.

She could be the mother of Adam Bhagirathi. The family lives in the Scarborough area of Toronto.

Deaths from street car racing forced the provincial Ontario government in 2007 to enact stringent laws to slap heavy penalties of up to $10,000, license suspensions and impounding the vehicles involved in street racing.

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