Drug-affected, unlicensed teen driver jailed over fatal crash in regional WA
A drug-affected, unlicensed teenage driver who left the scene of a fatal crash she caused when she fell asleep at the wheel has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in jail.Ebony Lovett left the scene and said nobody else was in the wreckageEbony Rose Lovett, who was 19 at the time and is now 21, had not slept for about 20 hours when she lost control of her vehicle on the Collie Changerup Road in the Great Southern about 8:00am on January 15 last year.
State prosecutor Danae Aldous said Lovett was asked twice by the driver if there were any other people in the crash, but she twice replied no.She was eventually found at the Kojonup Hospital where the court heard she was found to be suffering from concussion. The court heard Lovett and her passengers had driven about 650 kilometres in the hours before the crash, and there was evidence that during that time Mr Rodney had made her stop the car because she was driving at high speed.Lovett's lawyer, Justine Fisher, said her client, who was now 21, had an incredibly impoverished and dysfunctional background and had been introduced to drugs at a young age by her parents.
Ms Fisher told the court Lovett — who has never held a driver's licence — did not remember driving that day, and her last memory was of being a passenger in the car.
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