A Sarnia woman got two years of house arrest after speeding nearly double the limit, causing a crash that injured her daughter and herself.

A Sarnia-Lambton woman was sentenced to two years of house arrest with GPS monitoring after a July 15, 2024, crash on Lakeshore Road in Lambton Shores, where she was driving at nearly double the speed limit—119 km/h—without a seatbelt. The crash, triggered by a sneezing fit, caused her Jeep to veer into oncoming traffic, narrowly avoiding a head-on collision before crashing into a guardrail. Her daughter, wearing a seatbelt, suffered a broken jaw and lacerations requiring surgery but recovered fully. The mother sustained life-threatening injuries, including multiple fractures and a medically induced coma, and later woke with no memory of the crash. She pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing bodily harm, and the court, citing her lack of criminal record and remorse, imposed house arrest as the maximum allowable sentence under Canadian law. The incident was deemed avoidable due to excessive speed and lack of seatbelt use.