Home detention for crash driver

By Emma Spillett
Updated November 6 2012 - 3:35am, first published February 28 2012 - 10:41am
Menka Ninic.
Menka Ninic.

A Sydney woman whose car veered onto the wrong side of a Darkes Forest road and collided with an oncoming vehicle, killing another female, is set to serve her jail term at home.Menka Ninic, of Carlton, was sentenced in Wollongong Local Court last year to a minimum five months’ jail for the fatal collision, but Magistrate Ian Guy stayed the decision, pending a home detention assessment.Yesterday, the court heard Ninic was suitable for home detention and Mr Guy ordered her to serve the overall 10-month jail term outside prison.However, Ninic immediately lodged a severity appeal against the sentence and was granted bail pending a hearing in Wollongong District Court in April.Ninic was heading home on April 1, 2010, when she veered onto the wrong side of Darkes Forest Rd, incorrectly believing a ute, driven by Darkes Forest resident Noel Carr, was approaching on her side of the road, the court was told.Mr Carr and his wife, Avril, were just minutes from their home when Ninic’s car collided head-on with their ute as it travelled west.Mrs Carr sustained serious injuries in the crash and died on the day of the collision.Last year, the court was told Ninic, who pleaded guilty to negligent driving occasioning death, was a model citizen with no criminal record. Mr Guy sentenced her to an overall 10 months’ jail and disqualified her from driving for 18 months.Ninic’s appeal is set to be heard on April 20.

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