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An elderly woman who had ‘several’ glasses of wine before crashing her car into a tree had spoken to the families of victims killed by drunk drivers just an hour before the accident.
Redlands City Council Mayor Karen Williams struck the tree after driving off a highway in Cleveland, east of Brisbane, around 9 p.m. m. from Thursday.
Less than an hour earlier, Cr Williams held a Zoom meeting with the families of Matt Field and Hayley Russell, both killed by drunk drivers in separate incidents in Queensland.
The mayor has apologized to her for her “misjudgment”, but Ms Russell’s mother and road safety advocate, Judy Lindsay, now says he wants nothing to do with her.
Ms. Lindsay said the mayor had told her he wanted to “clean up Redlands” with tougher penalties for drunk drivers.
“He told me during the Zoom meeting that he was very sorry about my daughter’s death and then within an hour he crashed his car and admitted to drinking,” she added.
Lindsay’s daughter, Hayley, died at the age of 20 after she was hit by a drunk driver in 2009.
Fighting back tears as he appeared before the media, Cr Williams said he would continue to try to work with families and others in the community to make the roads safer.
She was asked if her meeting with the families of drunk driving victims had “meant nothing to her” on Saturday.
