A 23-year-old Kitchener man has been charged with impaired driving after police found him asleep behind the wheel in the middle lane of Highway 403 in Hamilton late Thursday.

The man had been out on bail with conditions including that he not drive. He was convicted in April of impaired driving causing the death of his 19-year-old friend.

Inside a fourth-floor courtroom on Thursday, a 40-year-old Toronto woman pleaded guilty to an impaired driving causing death charge as the victim's family watched on.

Haley Jade Watson was facing three counts of impaired driving causing death and three counts of dangerous driving causing death in the July 9, 2024, collision.

Two children were pronounced dead on the scene while a third was rushed to the hospital and succumbed to their injuries. A fourth child and two adults were taken to the hospital.

Quebec is the only province that has not established a legal limit lower than the .08 — 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood — set in the Criminal Code.

A Quebec coroner says if the province's penalties were in line with the rest of the country, a dangerous driver who killed a motorcyclist in 2020 would not have been on the road.

A 43-year-old Ontario man is charged after falsely accusing his partner of impaired driving, with police discovering he was the one driving under the influence.

Quebec provincial police estimate that reducing the legal blood-alcohol limit to .05 would save between 10 and 14 lives every year on the province's roadways.

Bonnie Stevenson, president of MADD Saskatoon, says deaths and injuries from impaired driving are easy to prevent. "The message is just so simple... You plan a safe ride home."