A 39-year-old woman from Toronto has been arrested and faces five criminal charges following an incident in Clarence-Rockland on October 15, 2026.

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded just before noon to reports of an unknown woman driving onto a property multiple times and consuming alcohol.

When Russell County OPP officers located her, she reversed her vehicle into a police cruiser and fled.

The collision injured an OPP officer, who was taken to the hospital for assessment and treatment.

After being located and arrested shortly after by the Hawkesbury OPP detachment in Alfred-Plantagenet Township, she allegedly refused to provide a breath sample for an alcohol screening device.

The woman, identified as Samantha Lawlor, has been charged with assault of a peace officer with a weapon, dangerous operation of a vehicle, flight from a peace officer, failure or refusal to comply with a demand and resisting a peace officer.