A Swan Bay woman who has a suspended jail sentence hanging over her head for causing the death of a man in a 2018 Christmas Day road crash pleaded guilty to driving charges on Monday.
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Elizabeth Anne Quill, 36, pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified, possessing a controlled plant and two counts of possessing a thing on William Street, Launceston on August 31 this year.
Ms Quill also pleaded guilty through defence counsel Beri Kurdistan to a count of driving with an illicit drug in her oral fluid on the same day.
She pleaded not guilty to driving while disqualified, breach of bail and possessing a smoking pipe when intercepted about 6.14pm on September 17 in the Woolworths car park on Invermay Road.
She also pleaded not guilty to a count of driving with an illicit drug in her system on the same day.
Magistrate Simon Brown adjourned the case for an in custody hearing and facts and sentence on December 9.
In June Ms Quill was found guilty of causing the death of Jayden John Pearce, 18, in a crash on Pipers River Road, near Lower Turners Marsh in 2018.
Mr Pearce was fatally injured when Ms Quill's car crossed onto the incorrect side of the road and collided with the car in which he was a passenger.
She received a three-month suspended jail sentence and was banned from driving for two years taking her disqualification to November 2024.
Ms Quill offended in the aftermath of the fatal crash. She pleaded guilty to driving on Pipers River Road with ice in her system in January 2019 - three weeks after the crash.
She also drove on the East Tamar Highway at Hillwood with methylamphetamine in her system on March 1 last year and drove in Ravenswood on July 28 last year when her driver's licence was suspended.
For these offences, she was sentenced in May to a 12-month community correction order and disqualified from driving for 18 months. She also received a 10-week suspended jail sentence.
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