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Impaired charges laid after pair of late-night collisions

Local woman charged after Barrie police responded to two crashes within minutes of each other near downtown Barrie
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Barrie police were called to a head-on collision Sunday night on Innisfil Street, north of Brock Street.

A couple of collisions last night has led to impaired charges for a 37-year-old Barrie driver.

Barrie police communications co-ordinator Peter Leon said the first collision occurred Sunday night, shortly after 10 p.m., when the driver allegedly backed into a fence on Eccles Street. 

A few minutes later, at 10:14 p.m., police say the same driver collided with another vehicle on Innisfil Street, near Brock Street.

A Barrie woman has been charged with impaired driving (over .80 milligrams) and failure to remain at the scene of a collision under the Highway Traffic Act. The accused will be in a Barrie court on April 12. 

She was taken to local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.