A Quebec woman who stopped her car on a highway to help a group of ducklings has been found guilty of causing the deaths of a motorcyclist and his teenage daughter who crashed into her parked car.

A jury found Emma Czornobaj, 25, guilty on Friday of two counts of criminal negligence causing death and two counts of dangerous driving causing death.

Criminal negligence causing death carries a maximum life sentence while the charge of dangerous driving causing death carries a maximum of 14 years in jail. Czornobaj has no previous criminal record.

The trial heard that on June 27, 2010 Czornobaj stopped her car on Highway 30 in Candiac, south of Montreal, after spotting a group of ducklings on the roadway.

Andre Roy was travelling on his motorcycle with his 16-year-old daughter Jessie on the back when he slammed into Czornobaj’s car.

Roy, 50, died at the scene. His daughter was pinned under the car and later died in hospital.

Roy’s wife, Pauline Volikakis, was travelling on her own motorcycle at the time and also smashed into the car. She suffered serious injuries.

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Speaking to reporters at the Montreal court on Friday, Volikakis said she didn’t have any ill-will towards Czornobaj.

“It’s time that we go on,” she said. “This will not bring (back) my loved ones.”

Volikakis would not comment on Czornobaj’s possible sentence.

Czornobaj did not speak to reporters outside the courtroom, shielding her face with a newspaper as she waited for an elevator.

During the trial, other witnesses told the court they were distracted by seeing Czornobaj on the median waving at ducks, and barely managed to swerve out of the way of the parked car.

Czornobaj, who was 21 at the time of the accident, said during the trial that if the same thing were to happen today "I would not have stopped."

She is scheduled to return to court for a pre-sentencing hearing on August 8.

With files from the Canadian Press