Impaired driving charges laid in December Highway 21 crash

A Leduc County woman is accused of having a blood alcohol limit three times what is legal during a crash in Strathcona County in December.

A 52-year-old woman driving an SUV and her 18-year-old female passenger sustained life-threatening injuries in the head-on crash on Highway 21 near Township Road 510 the evening of Dec. 14. Another SUV passenger, an 18-year-old man, was assessed but not hurt.

The other driver, a 32-year-old woman behind the wheel of a pickup truck, was hospitalized but her injuries were described as not life threatening.

She faces nine charges related to impaired and dangerous driving and is scheduled to appear in court in Sherwood Park in March.