As with previous years, eight people, nominated by their family or friends, enter the Driver Rehabilitation Centre to improve their driving skills.
Three experts return from Canada's Worst Driver 4, though Dan Bagyan, head instructor from the past season, is not among them.
In deliberation, Melissa reveals to the experts that Wil told her of his private drive with Andrew and how he cried for 15 minutes afterwards.
Arun, in the meantime, repeatedly cuts off everyone else (first Crystal, then Andrew—both on bad passes—and then Mike from the outside lane into the infield) before having to be dragged off the course for everyone else's safety.
In the confessionals and in front of the experts, everyone mourns over Crystal's personal tragedy and reflect on their own skills in the process.
While speaking to the panel, Father Giles, who spoke to Crystal after hearing the news, says that hearing of the tragedy has only made him more determined to improve his skills, while Jakob and Angelina admit to causing minor accidents via their own failures to yield and Mike is confronted by Cam over his excessive speed during the night driving challenge.
After Cam rails at him, Mike admits that he probably shouldn't continue to drive and Andrew challenges him to decide once and for all, by handing him back both his license and a pair of scissors.
Reluctantly, Mike destroys his license, admitting that he couldn't live with himself if he killed someone through his bad driving, especially after seeing how Crystal was affected by her brother-in-law's death earlier in the season.
Angelina, on the other hand, angrily refuses the notion of destroying her license, claiming that she was awarded it legitimately.
Despite all four panel members strongly recommending that she give up driving, at least until she is able to better control her nerves, Angelina remains defiant to the end.
During the journey, Mike reflects on his overall attitude, vowing to reform himself and earn a new license (he has since quit driving), while Angelina's car is towed away and she is given a cab ride to a nearby airport, as the fifth person (third woman in the last four seasons) to be awarded the trophy.