Red Deer woman charged with impaired driving resulting in injury

Red Deer woman charged with impaired driving resulting in injury

Vehicle’s passenger sent to hospital with serious injuries

Red Deer RCMP are charging a woman with impaired driving causing bodily harm after a single-vehicle collision Friday night sent the vehicle’s passenger to hospital with serious injuries.

At 10 p.m. on Nov. 17th, Red Deer RCMP responded to a report of a single vehicle collision after an SUV collided with a tree and then rolled on 60th St., just east of Taylor Drive. RCMP determined that the female driver was impaired by alcohol and arrested her. The female passenger sustained a number of serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the collision and was transported to hospital for treatment; the driver was not injured in the collision.

A 33-year-old woman faces charged of impaired driving and impaired driving causing bodily harm.

– Connolly