A Barrie woman will discover her fate in three weeks time as a sentencing date has been set in relation to the south-end Barrie crash that left three pedestrians with serious injuries.
Cassie Korzenko, who was 32 years old when she was charged in December 2022, pleaded guilty earlier this year to three counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm following the crash in front of Sadlon Arena at Mapleview and Bayview drives.
The crash, which happened Dec. 1, 2022, sent three people to hospital with serious injuries.
On Wednesday morning, a sentencing hearing date was set for May 8 in a Barrie courtroom.
Korzenko was arrested at the scene and charged following the crash. Barrie city police have said she was driving her vehicle southbound on Bayview Drive when she struck the pedestrians and then also collided with two other vehicles, whose occupants were uninjured.
Empower Simcoe community support worker Melanie Smith, 52, as well as two middle-aged men named Sean and Jeff, who receive support from the organization and are involved with Special Olympics, suffered serious injuries from the crash.
Korzenko spent nearly two months in custody following her arrest, before being released on bail Jan. 25, 2023.
On Jan. 16, 2024, Korzenko appeared virtually in an Orillia courtroom to face the charges and enter a plea to charges related to a crash.
