A 23-year-old driver is sentenced to a maximum of three years and eight months in jail after after he hit two police officers while texting on his phone in western Sydney last year.
A driver who was looking at his phone before he hit two police officers in western Sydney last year has been sentenced to a maximum of three years and eight months in jail.
Senior Constables Jonathan Wright and Matthew Foley were setting up an RBT site on Campbelltown Road at Leumeah when Thornton ploughed into them.
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