

Chris Kitching, cp24.com





Impaired driving charges have been laid in a Burlington crash that killed one person and injured four others Thursday.

A 52-year-old Hamilton woman died at the scene of the two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Harvester Road and South Service Road, Halton Regional Police said.

The crash occurred when a Buick Rendezvous, heading westbound on Harvester, broadsided a Pontiac Grand Am that was turning from Harvester’s eastbound lanes into South Service Road’s northbound lanes.

Police said the Hamilton woman was a passenger in the Grand Am. Two other occupants from the car – its 41-year-old female driver and a 23-year-old male passenger – were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Two passengers in the Rendezvous – two men, aged 20 and 22 – also suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

The driver of the Buick was uninjured and was arrested at the scene shortly after the crash, police said.

Burlington resident Kyrie McKay, 21, is charged with impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death and two counts of failing to comply with probation.

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