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Hamilton Police and the Ontario Fire Marshal are still investigating how and why a car crashed into a home, killing one man and displacing several people yesterday.

The neighbours had been blocking the entrance all day and they told us they would eventually like to use this event spread awareness about mental health issues. The man who died apparently threatened to jump off a roof recently and some witnesses said it looked like he drove into the garage on purpose.

Monday afternoon at about 4:30pm neighbours had to scramble out of the way as a car came speeding into the lot and smashed into the garage of one of the townhouses, that home caught fire and 2 others were damaged. Another neighbour’s dog got panicked, ran into traffic and was killed.

The man who was driving was lifeless when neighbours tried to pull him from the crashed car. 2 people had been sleeping inside but they managed to get out safely, along with the rest of the residents in the complex.