Impaired driving charge for driver in fatal crash
A Manitoba woman has been charged with impaired driving causing death in connection with a highway collision that left one person dead and four people seriously injured on Wednesday.
The crash happened about 4 p.m. when a car carrying four people drove through an intersection and collided with an SUV at the intersection of Highway 45 and Road 122 West.
A woman, 31, from Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation, was pronounced dead at the scene. She had been riding in the front passenger seat.
Two other passengers, a man, 29, and a woman, 30, from Waywayseecappo First Nation, were transported to hospital with serious injuries, as were the two occupants of the SUV, a man and a woman from Keeseekoowenin,
The driver of the car, a 27-year-old woman from Waywayseecappo, has been charged with impaired driving causing death, five counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm, refusal to provide a blood sample related to the death and five counts of refusal to provide a blood sample related to injury.
Police say all the occupants were wearing seatbelts at the time.
RCMP are investigating the incident.
