WA: Freeway driver loses dangerous driving jail-term appeal
A young driver has lost her appeal against the jail term imposed after she hit andkilled a man on a Perth freeway while driving fatigued.
SHARON PATRICIA WOOD, aged 24, was sentenced last month to 18 months' jail for dangerousdriving causing death after hitting and killing a 51-year-old man.
WOOD had claimed she'd sneezed just before the accident, but Justice BILL GROVES saida more likely explanation was fatigue.
Both Ms WOOD'S defence counsel and the prosecution had argued against a jail term.
But Justice GROVES said WOOD'S case fell within the more serious category of dangerousdriving causing death.
Ms WOOD'S parents RON and MAXINE lodged an appeal earlier this month.
But the West Australian Court of Criminal Appeal has ruled by majority today that JusticeGROVE did not err in the sentence he imposed.
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KEYWORD: WOOD (PERTH)
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