Updated September 5, 2025 @ 4:19pm
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is promising to introduce legislation this fall to strengthen dangerous driving laws in honour of a father of three who was killed last month by an alleged dangerous driver.
Andrew Cristillo, 35, was killed Aug. 3 in a head-on crash in Whitchurch-Stouffville that also left his wife and their three young daughters injured.
The 18-year-old man charged in that crash is also the same person charged after a car hit an Ontario Provincial Police vehicle Ford was travelling in on Highway 401 in January.
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Ford met Friday with Cristillo's family, who have been calling for the province to implement Andrew's Law, which would include revoking an accused person's licence until they go to trial and enacting lifetime driving bans for people convicted of extreme dangerous driving.
The premier pledged action following the meeting.
"What their family has to go through now, and the three little girls, this is going to be lifelong for them," he said. "I promised their family that I'm going to go through with Andrew's Law."
Ford said he agrees there should be immediate roadside suspensions for people charged with offences such as dangerous driving and impaired driving.
Cristillo's brother, Jordan Cristillo, said he wants to see Andrew's Law enacted so no other family has to feel the same pain.
"This was preventable and now it's time to prevent this from ever happening to any of your families," he said. "We look forward to making the roads safer in Andrew's name."
Ontario last year passed legislation to introduce lifetime driving bans for people convicted of impaired driving causing dangerous death, and Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said the province is now looking to expand that scope to include dangerous driving.
"We're going to work with the family to implement all five of these measures (they're calling for)," Sarkaria said.
Ford also urged support for Cristillo's wife Christina, who now has to continue battling breast cancer without her husband.
Their three daughters are recovering from various physical injuries, Jordan Cristillo said previously, but emotionally and spiritually they have a long road ahead. All three were under the age of seven at the time of the crash, but in the few short weeks since then, two of them have had to mark birthdays without their father.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 5, 2025.
