Man, 30, charged with dangerous driving after two-year-old boy killed in car crash

A grey Porsche Cayenne hit a Toyota Auris carrying four adults and the two-year-old boy in Dartmouth Road in Smethwick, near Birmingham, on Saturday evening.

A man, 30, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a young boy was killed in a suspected hit-and-run crash.

A grey Porsche Cayenne hit a Toyota Auris carrying four adults and the two-year-old boy in Dartmouth Road in Smethwick, near Birmingham, on Saturday evening.

Two people in the Toyota, a woman, 30, and a man, 30, remain in a serious condition in hospital.

Sharjeel Shahzad has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, two charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, driving with no insurance and failing to stop after a collision.

He has been remanded to appear at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

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