The mayor of Redlands, Australia, Karen Williams is under fire after crashing her car into a tree.
The mayor crashed her car one hour after hosting an online meeting with families whose loved ones were killed in accidents caused by drunk drivers.
In the meeting, the mayor reportedly declared: "We need to clean up the drink driving."
According to Carscoops, Williams admitted that she had “several glasses of wine” before her crash.
7News Australia reports that the mayor said it was a mistake to get behind the wheel.
She has, however, resisted calls to resign, saying it would be a rash decision.
“I made a mistake, I will learn from that mistake, and will continue to serve my community as I have for the past 18 years,” Williams told ABC News.
The mayor even campaigned with the families of pregnant couple Kate Leadbetter and Matthew Field and called the 10-year jail sentence of the teenager who was driving while drunk and killed them “manifestly inadequate.”
According to Judy Lindsay, who helped host the Thursday anti-drunk driving event and whose daughter was killed in a crash involving alcohol in 2009, Williams said she wanted to make it her political “legacy” to address road safety issues like drunk driving.
Lindsay said the mayor called her in tears on Friday night to apologise for her error, but she was unimpressed.
