A woman from the Mini Thni First Nation, located just west of Calgary, will spend three-and-a-half years in a federal penitentiary and face a driving prohibition for her role in a horrific crash that killed a Canadian Forces veteran in August of 2022.

Thirty-one-year-old Deirdre Snow was sentenced in a Calgary courtroom on Friday after a jury found her guilty in April on a charge of driving with a blood alcohol limit over .08 causing death.

The crash killed Samantha Wylie , 53, of Fort Saskatchewan, Alta, who was riding her motorcycle along Highway 1A near Morley Road, west of Calgary, when the two vehicles collided.

Snow was the second person charged in Wylie’s death.

Charges were dropped against a passenger in the vehicle, after DNA evidence proved Snow was the person in the driver

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