Close X
Friday, September 20, 2024
ADVT 
National

Woman Pleads Guilty To Impaired Driving In Crash That Killed Saskatoon Family

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 08 Jun, 2016 12:19 PM
    SASKATOON — A Saskatoon woman has admitted to impaired driving in a highway crash that killed a couple and their two young children.
     
    Catherine McKay, who remains in custody, appeared in court on video and pleaded guilty to four counts of impaired driving causing death.
     
    A sentencing hearing is to be held July 27.
     
    Police said that McKay was driving an SUV that struck the family's car as it crossed Highway 11 just north of Saskatoon on Jan. 3.
     
     
     
    Jordan Van de Vorst, who was 34, and his 33-year-old wife, Chanda Van de Vorst, died at the scene.
     
    Five-year-old Kamryn and her two-year-old brother, Miguire, died in hospital.
     
    Jordan Van de Vorst worked as a microbiologist at research company Phenomenome Discoveries, which said after the crash that more than 50 people had received transplants through organ donations from the family.
     
    McKay, listed at the time as executive director of the Saskatoon Sports Council, was also an active member of the city's wrestling community.

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Drunk Canadian Woman Charged In Louisiana After Wild Arrest Captured On Video

    Drunk Canadian Woman Charged In Louisiana After Wild Arrest Captured On Video
    Veronique Bourgault, of Repentigny, Que., was arrested Friday evening following the fracas at a busy Tiger Stadium.

    Drunk Canadian Woman Charged In Louisiana After Wild Arrest Captured On Video

    Burnaby RCMP Seek Driver After Vehicle Rear-Ends RCMP Cruiser, Injures Mountie

    Burnaby RCMP Seek Driver After Vehicle Rear-Ends RCMP Cruiser, Injures Mountie
    The officer was in his unmarked cruiser at the side of Highway 1 in Burnaby, completing paperwork from an unrelated traffic stop

    Burnaby RCMP Seek Driver After Vehicle Rear-Ends RCMP Cruiser, Injures Mountie

    High Demand, Low Inventory Equals Record Housing Sales In Greater Vancouver

    High Demand, Low Inventory Equals Record Housing Sales In Greater Vancouver
    The board says homes are selling at an unprecedented rate in communities across the region stretching from Whistler to South Delta.

    High Demand, Low Inventory Equals Record Housing Sales In Greater Vancouver

    Funding Shortfall Means Fewer Language Classes For Syrian Refugees

    In Toronto, no classes will be offered this summer by at least one major organization, while in Vancouver, more than 200 spots have been cut.

    Funding Shortfall Means Fewer Language Classes For Syrian Refugees

    Scenes Of Destruction As Second Wave Of Residents Return To Fort McMurray

    Scenes Of Destruction As Second Wave Of Residents Return To Fort McMurray
    Nothing seems amiss looking at the front of Adam Chouinard's Fort McMurray house, aside for the yellow "restricted use" sign taped to the door.

    Scenes Of Destruction As Second Wave Of Residents Return To Fort McMurray

    B.C. Court Of Appeal Ruling Upholds Federal Dangerous-Offender Laws

    B.C. Court Of Appeal Ruling Upholds Federal Dangerous-Offender Laws
    VANCOUVER — British Columbia's highest court has overturned a ruling that found nearly decade-old changes to the federal dangerous-offender laws violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

    B.C. Court Of Appeal Ruling Upholds Federal Dangerous-Offender Laws