A Victorian man has been imprisoned after the buggy he was driving with seven children on board flipped and killed his daughter's friend in 2021.
Olivia Stevens , 6, died after the farm buggy that Damien Gibson was driving flipped. Damien Gibson has been sentenced to five years behind bars for the culpable driving death of Olivia Stevens .
Damien Gibson, 36, was sentenced in the Melbourne County Court today after pleading guilty to culpable driving causing death. Olivia's father Scott Stevens was collecting firewood at the time of the crash and her mum, Heyfield dentist Yana Stevens, had driven 20 minutes away, to Sale, to collect her son from a birthday party.that her daughter's injuries were catastrophic and her death had destroyed their family.
"No more so than the family of the deceased for whom, as the victim impact statement so eloquently , the death of their beloved daughter, sister and granddaughter has been and will continue to be utterly devastating."
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