An early afternoon crash on Saturday left two friends dead, and two brothers behind bars facing multiple charges of criminal negligence causing their deaths.

Tragedy struck when the burgundy Pontiac driven by 49-year-old Cynthia Dougherty and carrying 44-year-old Maria Dalsass was struck by another vehicle on Highway 50 in Brampton. The horrific crash involved six cars and a truck and one other driver was taken to hospital for treatment of minor injuries. The two women weren't so fortunate and died at the scene.

"She was one of those people that you remembered," Cynthia's brother-in-law Mark Dougherty said Sunday. "She always will be remembered by us."

Two other drivers in the crash, brothers Steven Machado, 21, and 27-year-old Brian Machado, were arrested at the scene and had their vehicles -- an Audi and BMW -- and licenses seized by authorities under the province's new anti-aggressive driving legislation.

The speed limit along the stretch where the accident occurred is 80 kilometres an hour, but witnesses allege the two brothers were going almost twice that speed. Both will appear in court Tuesday.

As for the new laws, police say they're quickly paying dividends, having taken more than 250 vehicles off the road in just over a week.

"We've been averaging about one every 25 minutes," said OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley. "It seems to me that the people we're taking off the road are the very people that shouldn't ever be on there."

Still, the changes came too late to alter the fates of Dougherty and Dalsass, something their friends and family won't soon forget.

"You just can't get over it," Mark Doughtery said. "I don't know what else to say."