Evo Street Racers: Street Racing Accidents

Man killed in Renton street-racing crash is identified

Source: The Seattle Time
Date: January 30, 2008
Author: Jennifer Sullivan

A driver who died Monday after crashing into a state Department of Transportation (DOT) truck while street racing on Highway 167 in Renton on Jan. 21 has been identified as Amrinder Dhaliwal.

Dhaliwal, 22, of Kent, was racing another southbound car at speeds up to 120 mph near South 180th Street shortly before 10 p.m. Jan. 21, according to the State Patrol. Dhaliwal struck a DOT truck in an HOV lane that was closed for construction. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with skull fractures. He later died.

The driver of the other car, a 19-year-old from Kent, was booked into King County Jail on investigation of vehicular assault.