While Jake Stock was driving on the Dukes Highway in South Australia's south-east, he collided with a car driven by Poppy Crozier — 'a vibrant young woman with her whole adult life ahead of her' — who was killed on impact with a truck.
Jake Stock , 19, has been jailed for three years for causing a crash which killed teenager Poppy Crozier near Ki Ki on the Dukes Highway .
In sentencing, District Court judge Jane Schammer said Stock's offending did not involve any aggravating features such as drugs, alcohol or street racing, "but rather was the product of gross misjudgement, immaturity and naivety". "Tragically as you started to come back onto the correct side of the road, the front driver's side of your vehicle collided with the front driver's side of the vehicle in the overtaking lane — propelling that vehicle into the path of ."Judge Schammer said those oncoming headlights belonged to Ms Crozier, who was travelling back to her hometown of Keith in the state's south-east after a week of studying and working in Adelaide.
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