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Canadian woman sentenced to 10 years for killing four people in car crash

Xinhua, July 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

A Canadian woman whose drunk driving left four people dead in January received a 10-year sentence on Wednesday.

Catherine McKay, 49, pleaded guilty in June to four counts of impaired driving that killed a whole family. In the accident in January, McKay failed to stop her car and collided with another car carrying a couple with their two children. They all died later.

Police officers found after the crash that McKay's blood-alcohol level was three times of the legal limit, according to a report by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Endi