A 21-year-old woman from Tracy Mills has been charged with 12 offences related to impaired driving in connection with a fatal accident last July on Route 560 in Williamstown.

Just before midnight on July 5, 2015, RCMP were called to a single-vehicle crash in Williamstown. A car carrying seven people left the road and rolled several times before ending up in a field.

Emma Pearson was killed in a motor vehicle accident in July 2015. (Submitted by Pearson family) Six people were thrown from the car. Emma Pearson, a 16-year-old girl from Glassville, died at the scene and five other passengers, between the ages of 15 and 22 years, suffered serious injuries.

Whitney Esther St. Pierre is to appear in Woodstock provincial court on July 5, 2016, to answer to charges laid recently in connect with the crash.

The charges include: