The victims’ Pontiac Sunfire car was carrying five people heading home from a Halloween party. Two of the passengers — Senhit Mehari, 19, and Amutha Subramaniam, 17 — died from their injuries.
WINNIPEG – A hearing is underway to decide whether a woman, who killed two South Asian teens while driving drunk and causing a fatal crash, should be sentenced as an adult.
The victims’ Pontiac Sunfire car was carrying five people heading home from a Halloween party. Two of the passengers — Senhit Mehari, 19, and Amutha Subramaniam, 17 — died from their injuries, reported CBC News.
The woman, who was 17 at the time of the October 2010 crash, cannot be named because she was a youth.
In September 2014, she pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal negligence causing death and two counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
Court heard at that time, that she was drunk, speeding on cruise control and texting when she blew through a solid red light without braking.
Her Cavalier slammed into a Sunfire at the intersection of St. Mary’s Road and Bishop Grandin Boulevard at 2:55 a.m. on Oct. 31, 2010.
The woman had a graduated licence and was not supposed to consume any alcohol but her blood alcohol reading at time was between 0.07 and 0.12. The legal limit in Manitoba is 0.05.
An 18-year-old woman was hospitalized in critical condition, another person was seriously injured, and a fifth person was treated in hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
