Culpable Driving Case Summary

On January the 16th Annie Owther pleaded guilty to her alleged one count offences of: Culpable driving causing death, negligently causing serious injury and driving while disqualified. Annie’s actions resulted in one death and four serious injuries including her own. Today we examine all factors leading to this event and reveal Annie’s sentencing and suggest recommendations for future mishaps.
On January 16th Annie pleaded guilty to the alleged one count of culpable driving, one count of negligently causing serious injury and one count of driving while disqualified. Culpable driving is when a person is driving a vehicle recklessly, negligently or under the influence of alcohol or drugs causing death. In Annie’s case she was driving under the influence of alcohol which lead her to lose control of the car. The outcomes of Annie’s careless
Along with the physical damage obtained by the victim’s, mental trauma will be left with those in the accident and also ongoing grief for the family of Bob Winkle. Annie had previous convictions which correlate to this offence, so the sentence she will receive will be because of deterrence and rehabilitation reasons. The purpose of deterrence and rehabilitation is to stabilize Annie’s life and encourage people not to commit crimes again, which seems fit for Annie’s situation. Taking into account Annie’s traumatic experiences of being sexually abused by her father, being a victim of domestic violence from her husband, her attempts at remorse for her alcohol addiction and pleading guilty out of her free will has lead me to my decision of her sentencing. Annie will serve 3 years in jail with a provided rehabilitation program and a non-parole period of 2 years, which is less than the baseline and medium sentence in Victoria regarding culpable driving causing death. Another factor considered whilst convicting Annie was that statistics shows that