Drunk driver was fleeing from angry son

Elizabeth Larlee, 75, of Fredericton, fined, barred from driving, ordered to get counselling

A Fredericton senior drove drunk to the city police station last year because her abusive son was on the hood of her car, angry that she was putting him out of her house, court heard Monday.

Elizabeth Larlee, 75, of Stairs Street, pleaded guilty late last year to a count of impaired driving, and she was back in Fredericton provincial court Monday for sentencing.

This screen capture from Fredericton public-safety camera footage shows Elizabeth Larlee’s Nissan Sentra headed to the police station with her irate son David on the hood of the car. (Photo: Court exhibit)

Crown prosecutor Brett Stanford said the case arose the night of May 15 when someone at the Ironwood Resource Centre on Brunswick Street called police at about 11:20 p.m. to report something unusual in traffic.

The caller said a white car had gone through the Victoria Circle roundabout at the bottom of Smythe Street “with a male on top of the car yelling to stop,” he said.