Watch above: It has been nearly 10 months since a fatal crash on Circle Drive claimed the life of an eight-year-old girl. As Amber Rockliffe reports, following a lengthy investigation Saskatoon police have now charged her mother with impaired driving causing death.
SASKATOON – A woman has been charged with impaired driving causing death after her daughter died in a March 2014 crash. Janelle Cameron, 32, is also facing a charge of driving over .08 causing death.
Cameron made her first appearance in provincial court Thursday. She was wiping away tears as the judge spoke to her.
At about 9:30 a.m. on March 1, 2014, Cameron was travelling north on Idylwyld Freeway near the Ruth Street exit. Police said her car flipped, crossed the centre median and collided with a pole, before it came to rest in the southbound lanes.
Kya Topp Cameron, 8, was in the back seat of the car and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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First responders, police, and other emergency personnel who attended the crash said they were shaken.
“Anytime you attend a collision where you have a fatality, it’s traumatic for the emergency responders, there’s no doubt about that. When a child is involved, it’s particularly disturbing,” said Alyson Edwards with the Saskatoon Police Service.
Over the past eight months, police conducted a lengthy investigation into the crash.
“It is a long, often long and arduous task to put the pieces together of what occurred prior to the collision,” Edwards explained.
Cameron has no prior criminal record. She has been released on several conditions, including abstaining from alcohol. Her next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 7, 2015.
With files from David Giles
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