A crew from Massena electric department repairs a light pole damaged by a 24-year-old Potsdam woman who crashed her car and was charged with felony impaired driving while her child was in the car.

MASSENA -- Village police charged a 24-year-old Potsdam woman with felony driving while ability impaired under Leandra's Law after she allegedly crashed her vehicle twice, the second of which caused it to become engulfed in flames and totally destroyed, police said.

Leandra's Law means she is accused of having a child under age 16 in the vehicle at the time of the incident.

Kristen L. Garner of 24 Waverly St. is also charged with a plethora of misdemeanors. They include two counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and one count each of criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument, second-degree reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident, refusing a drug screen, fourth-degree criminal mischief. She was also cited with failure to keep right, an infraction.

A statement from Massena Village Police says Garner was driving a 2008 Toyota RAV 4 southbound on Main Street around 11:12 p.m. when she went off the road at the Andrews Street intersection and struck a light pole. It snapped off and damaged a tree, along with a door and flower box at the Pease and Gustafson law firm, police said. She then went off the road on state Route 56 south of the village, struck a guard rail, caught fire and was totally destroyed, Lt. Mark LaBrake said.

All of this happened with a child in the vehicle, police said. LaBrake would not release the child's age, but did confirm Garner is the mother.

New York State Police, Louisville Fire Department and Massena Rescue Squad assisted at the scene, the statement says.

Garner was arraigned in Massena Village Court and ordered held at the St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility, Canton in lieu of $2,500 bail or $5,000 bond.