IT WAS unnecessary for a coroner to determine why the Mercedes being driven by Tasmania's former top prosecutor crossed onto the wrong side of the road and killed oncoming driver Natalia Pearn, according to findings published on Friday.
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A coronial inquest into the death of the Launceston woman was held in Hobart on July 28.
Coroner Olivia McTaggart said her findings only needed to cover the position of the vehicles of Ms Pearn and Tim Ellis at the crash and their movements immediately before the crash.
Ms McTaggart said she was not required to make any recommendations or comments in her findings.
Ms Pearn, 27, died in the motor vehicle crash from multiple blunt traumatic injuries about 6.15pm on March 24, 2013 on the Midland Highway at Lovely Banks.
Mr Ellis was driving his blue Mercedes Benz sedan in a southerly direction on the Midland Highway and moved from the south-bound lane into the overtaking lane, continuing to travel south in this lane.
Ms McTaggart said Mr Ellis was therefore travelling on the incorrect side of the road in the overtaking lane for a period of time.
"Impact between the two vehicles occurred in the overtaking lane on the tangent (exit) of a sweeping right hand curve for the south-bound traffic," she said.
Andrew Fowler, senior project manager for the Department of State Growth, identified to the coroner safety benefits in dividing the north and south-bound lanes in the area of the crash.
A 2.8-kilometre flexible safety barrier was recently installed at the crash location.
Mr Fowler stated the area had a "random element" according to crash statistics, as opposed to being a location with an identified cluster of crashes.
Mr Ellis was found guilty of having caused Ms Pearn's death by negligent driving and failed on appeal to the Supreme Court.
He received a wholly suspended four-month jail sentence and was disqualified from driving for two years in the Hobart Magistrates Court on December 24, 2014.