Laviolette pleaded guilty several weeks ago to impaired driving and dangerous driving concerning the incident, which occurred about 12:25 a.m. Nov. 19, 2019 on Municipal Road 80. She drove drunk through a police barricade set up to allow officers to reconstruct a serious, three-vehicle motor vehicle collision involving an impaired driver in Val Caron hours earlier.
Defence lawyer Norm Stanford of Toronto and the Crown suggested the conditional sentence. Laviolette will serve house arrest for the first two months, followed by a curfew with the other two. Justice Serre also issued a one-year licence suspension on the impaired driving charge, and a suspended sentence and 18-month probation order for the dangerous driving charge.