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“We’ll make sure we have an Andrew’s Law,” a sombre Ford said Friday following the meeting with Jordan Cristillo, the victim’s only brother.

“What their family has to go through now, and the three little girls, this is going to be lifelong for them.”

In memory of his late brother, Cristillo has been campaigning for immediate roadside licence suspensions until trial for those charged with dangerous driving, life sentences in prison when dangerous driving causes a death, and lifetime driving bans for “extreme offences such as stunt driving at excessive speed or impaired, reckless collisions.”

“This was preventable, and now it’s time to prevent this from ever happening to your families,” Cristillo said of the Aug. 3 collision on Highway 48 near Aurora Road in which his brother’s wife, Christina — who is fighting breast cancer — and girls were hospitalized.

“This is going to turn pain into purpose and save lives.”

Andrew Cristillo, 35, was pronounced dead at the scene in Whitchurch-Stouffville. The crash followed a Sunday dinner with family at a restaurant in the Newmarket area and a visit at the home of his parents.   

Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria noted the Highway Traffic Act was amended last year to provide for lifetime driving bans on anyone convicted of impaired driving causing death. 

“We’ll expand that scope and include dangerous driving,” he added. “We’re going to come down hard on this — you know, no tolerance.”

Defence lawyers have said there needs to be flexibility in how varying levels of dangerous driving are handled. 

After his brother’s death, Cristillo raised concerns that “something is fundamentally broken” when a person charged with dangerous driving is allowed to get behind the wheel again. 

OPP have confirmed the man charged in the Ford collision was released after being charged last winter.

“We were just driving straight. Next thing you know, out of nowhere, the car got side-swiped,” the premier recalled last month. He and other occupants of the OPP vehicle were not injured. Two occupants of the other vehicle were treated in hospital for minor injuries. 

Aside from dangerous driving causing death, Jaiwin Victor Kirubananthan is facing charges of failure to stop at the scene of a crash, mischief with the intent of misleading, providing a false statement to a police officer, and dangerous driving causing bodily harm in the Aug. 3 crash. None of the charges against him has been tested in court. 

A for Christina Cristillo, which notes her struggle with cancer and “life-altering injuries” for her three girls, has raised $532,217.