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Alcohol possible factor in Saskatoon crash involving young children

Police say alcohol could be a factor in crash on Avenue C North after a driver with two young passengers onboard strikes a pole then another vehicle. File / Global News

Saskatoon police believe alcohol was a factor after the driver of a vehicle with two young passengers onboard crashed over the noon hour.

Police said they were alerted to a car being driven erratically on Thursday at around 12:30 p.m. CT.

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Witnesses told police the vehicle was heading southbound on Avenue C North when it stuck a pole and then a vehicle in the area of Circle Drive North.

Responding officers arrested the 31-year-old woman driver.

Two boys in the vehicle, 6 and 7, were not injured.

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Police said charges are pending against the driver.

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