The former mayor of Woodstock is facing more legal woes.
Trevor Birtch has been charged with impaired driving after a crash Monday night that sent one person to hospital.
Emergency crews were called to the two-vehicle collision on 31st Line in Zorra Township, west of Woodstock, around 6:20 p.m.
One driver suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment. The other driver was arrested and taken to the Oxford OPP detachment for testing, police said.
Birtch has since been charged with impaired driving, impaired driving with a blood alcohol concentration over 80, and dangerous driving. He is scheduled to appear in Woodstock court in relation to these charges on December 12.
The driving-related charges are on top of sexual assault offences the 48-year-old was charged with last year. Following an investigation by London police, Birtch was charged with assault, sexual assault, and sexual assault with choking in February 2022. Those charges stem from separate incidents between February 14 and December 13, 2021, involving the same woman.
The sexual assault with choking charge was later dropped and a second sexual assault charge laid.
In April of 2022, Birtch was charged with three additional counts of sexual assault. Those three charges relate to a victim who Birtch knew, but not the same person who made the previous allegations against him.
Birtch was first elected as mayor of Woodstock in 2014. He served two terms before losing his re-election bid last October.
None of the allegations against Birtch have been proven in court.
