Car Incident on the 138
Written by Jeremy Zafran on 22 March 2023
A scary incident in Kahnawake along Highway 138 Tuesday afternoon. A 31-year-old non-local woman was trying to forge a lane between the cars on the 138 westbound near the 2nd set of lights and damaged several of them as she weaved through traffic. According to the Kahnawake Peacekeepers the incident occurred around 4 pm. Once the woman’s car was pulled over it was discovered that she was driving with a 15-month-old baby that was riding unsecured while seated in the drivers lap. The Peacekeepers say the baby sustained superficial cuts and was assessed by paramedics. Emily Vaillancourt of Chateauguay was in the middle of it all. She’s concerned for the baby and the health of the mom:
“We were just driving and I then I heard a loud bang and I see the red car in between my car and the car beside me and then she just kept going, forcing her way in between all the cars. So, she hit like a few, she was just bouncing back and forth from each car and eventually she ended up on the side of the road like in the dirt towards the ditch and I had called the Peacekeepers right away when I saw her keep going.”
The baby was placed in the custody of family services. The mother was deemed unfit and taken to hospital for a mental health assessment.
