Mother says son ‘high’ hours before senior killed in Saskatoon crash
SASKATOON — The mother of a 17-year-old boy who was allegedly involved in a fatal Saskatoon collision says that just hours before the crash she begged a judge to keep her drug-addicted son behind bars to dry out.
The woman, who cannot be identified because of the teen’s age, told Saskatoon radio station CKOM that her son was in court on unrelated breach conditions shortly before Wednesday’s three-vehicle crash that killed a 70-year-old man.
She says her son, who suffered minor injuries, was high on drugs and she wanted to keep him locked up so he could get help.
Police allege the teen was driving northbound on Circle Drive Wednesday when the car he was in struck a slow-moving piece of construction equipment, crossed the grass median and slammed into an oncoming car driven by the senior.