Manitoba·NewA year after a 49-year-old woman was struck and killed by a vehicle on Winnipeg bridge, city police have cited a 28-year-old woman with careless driving under Manitoba’s Highway Traffic Act.28-year-old woman arrested a year after Doris Porter, 49, was killed on the Harry Lazarenko Bridge CBC News · Posted: Aug 15, 2025 1:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: 30 minutes agoOn Monday, Winnipeg police charged a 28-year-old woman with careless driving a year after a 49-year-old woman was struck and killed by a vehicle Harry Lazarenko Bridge on Aug. 10, 2024. (Ron Dhaliwal/CBC)A year after a 49-year-old woman was struck and killed by a vehicle on Winnipeg bridge, city police have cited a 28-year-old woman with careless driving under Manitoba’s Highway Traffic Act.� Around 1:45 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2024, police responded to the Harry Lazarenko Bridge, near Main Street and Redwood Avenue, where a woman had been hit by a car and suffered serious injuries, police said in a news release on Friday. Police said she was lying on the bridge — formerly called the Redwood Bridge — when she was hit. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Last August, more than 100 mourners attended a vigil for Doris Porter, 49, demanding answers and justice after the fatal collision. Porter’s family called for a full investigation into her death. A red dress with the words ‘Justice for Doris’ was painted in the middle of the Harry Lazarenko Bridge on Aug. 30, 2024. (Arturo Chang/CBC)Police said the driver, who was not named in Friday’s news release, stayed at the scene to speak with investigators. A 28-year-old woman was charged with careless driving under the Highway Traffic Act and was released on an appearance notice, police said. More from CBC Manitoba:
Driver cited for careless driving in 2024 crash that killed woman on Winnipeg bridge
