2025-06-04
Car can be 'maiming machine', judge warns as careless driver avoids jail
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Pauline Codd made the comments while imposing a 17-month suspended prison sentence on a driver who broke a red light and knocked down an elderly lady as she crossed the road, leaving her in pain "all day, every day" with life-changing injuries. Imposing sentence today, Judge Codd said Rockett's "carelessness was more than a momentary lapse" and that she had allowed the search for her sister's house "to become a distraction".