Woman pleads guilty in crash that killed 2 teens in Winnipeg

A woman has pleaded guilty in acrash in Winnipeg that killed two teenage girlsin 2010, butthe father of one of the victims says the pain of losing his daughter will never go away.

Court heard on Monday that the woman, who was 17 years old at the time, was drunk, speedingon cruise control andtexting when sheblew through a solid red light without braking early in the morningofOct. 31, 2010.

The woman's Cavalier slammed into a Pontiac Sunfire at the intersection of St. Mary's Road and BishopGrandinBoulevard at 2:55 a.m.

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TheSunfirewas carrying five people who were heading home from a Halloween party.Two of the passengers died fromtheir injuries:Senhit Mehari, 19,andAmuthaSubramaniam,17.

An 18-year-old woman was hospitalized in critical condition, another person was seriously injured, anda fifth person wastreated in hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

"I lost my daughter. We're not going to get her back," Yohannes Mehari told CBC News late Monday.

"It will never go, the pain and suffering."

On Monday, court was told that the driver of the Cavalierhad a graduated licence and was not supposed to consume any alcohol.Herblood alcohol reading at time was between 0.07 and 0.12. The legal limit in Manitoba is 0.05.

She pleadedguilty to two counts ofcriminal negligence causingdeath and two counts ofcriminal negligence causing bodily harm.

Crown seeking adult sentence

Because the driver of the Cavalierwas a youth at the time of the crash,her name is protected from publication under theYouth Criminal Justice Act.

The Crownisapplying forthe woman to receiveanadult sentence.A hearing to determine if shewill be sentenced as an adult is at least two months away.

Yohannes Mehari said he's beenwaiting for justice for almost four years sincehis daughter died.

"For somebody who lost a bright daughter, it was very hard for us to really cope. It affected our lives in a very deep way, and the fact that it took four years is really long overdue, this day," he said.

Of the Cavalier driver, he said,"Sheviolated every traffic rule, so as far we are concerned we shouldn't have waited [so] long like this.The past four years, for us, it was very difficult."

Yohanna Asghedom, who wasdriving the Sunfirethat was struck,has sincerecovered from her injuries and has helped start a Students Against Impaired Driving group at the University of Manitoba.

"Texting especially is becoming a really big issue among young people," Asghedom said.

"So what happened to us girls I don't want to use [this] as an example because I do feel like it's a very extreme and very unfortunate case. However, I do feel like cases like this are not as uncommon as people think."