An Oshawa man who drove three times the speed limit on Lake Shore Boulevard West while drunk, causing a crash and killing his passenger, has pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death.

Kumaran Sankarkumar admitted that at approximately 2:30 a.m. on March 6, 2022, he accelerated his BMW as he was travelling eastbound on Lake Shore Boulevard West at an extremely high rate of speed into the westbound lanes near Jameson Avenue into ongoing traffic.

The road was wet and the speed limit for this stretch of Lake Shore was 60 km/h.

In court Tuesday, assistant Crown attorney Marnie Golderberg told Superior Court Justice Michael Dineen that there were a number of signs, including ones that read “Do Not Enter” and another that said “Wrong Way.”

Goldenberg told court, reading from an agreed

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