A driver sentenced on Tuesday over the death of a teenager on Christmas Day 2018 was sentenced in May this year on a number of driving charges that occurred after the fatal crash.
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Elizabeth Anne Quill, 36, of Swan Bay, received a three-month suspended jail sentence after being found guilty of causing the death of Jayden John Pearce, 18, through negligent driving.
The sentence was wholly suspended by Magistrate Simon Brown for two years on the condition that she commits no imprisonable offence.
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She was also disqualified from driving for two years cumulative to an 18-month disqualification handed down by Magistrate Ken Stanton in May.
In a sentencing submission about the fatal crash, Crown prosecutor Emily Stone said that Quill's offending since December 25, 2018, was reflective of a lack of insight.
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In May this year, Quill was sentenced to a 12-month community correction order after pleading guilty to driving on Pipers River Road with an illicit drug, namely ice, in her system in January 2019 - three weeks after the fatal crash.
The global sentence handed down by Mr Stanton also included a case of driving on the East Tamar Highway at Hillwood with methylamphetamine in her system on March 1 last year and with driving in Ravenswood on July 28 when her driver's licence was suspended.
A case of driving in York Street, Launceston with an illicit drug present in November 2019 was dismissed when police tendered no evidence.
Penalties for negligent driving causing death were increased from a maximum of one year jail to two years jail in 2017.
Magistrate Brown said in sentencing Quill that there had been six cases of death by negligent driving since the laws changed with all but one suspended.
Last year, Kim Fayers pleaded guilty to causing death by negligent driving for crossing to the wrong side of the road and colliding with a car driven by Corrie Stone on Golconda Road.
She received a three-month suspended sentence.
In 2012, Harvey John Charnock pleaded guilty to having caused death by negligent driving and having caused grievous bodily harm through negligent driving.
He received a nine-month jail sentence with three months suspended.
The crash near Elizabeth Town resulted in three deaths and four people seriously injured. Charnock failed to attach a safety chain to a trailer he was towing and it came loose and hit a bus full of passengers.
Then Director of Public Prosecutions Tim Ellis received a four-month suspended jail sentence in December 2014 after being found guilty.
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Nick Clark
I am the Supreme and Magistrates Court reporter for the Examiner for the past 18 months. My journalism career has clicked over 30 years and encompasses four different spells at Tasmanian newspapers.
I am the Supreme and Magistrates Court reporter for the Examiner for the past 18 months. My journalism career has clicked over 30 years and encompasses four different spells at Tasmanian newspapers.
