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Garbage truck driver Shah Newaz handed suspended sentence over fatal Darwin crash
The family of a woman killed in a head-on collision with a garbage truck in Darwin has condemned the truck driver’s suspended sentence as “an insult to her memory”.
Key points:
- The court heard the garbage truck driver had nine seconds to respond to banked-up traffic but failed to do so
- Justice Stephen Southwood said Shah Newaz had shown genuine remorse
- The victim’s husband said his family was haunted by the tragedy
Shah Newaz, 32, was behind the wheel of a fully laden garbage truck in July 2019 when he failed to brake in time to avoid banked-up traffic near a roundabout on McMillans Road in Knuckey Lagoon.
The 17-tonne truck, which had been travelling at 81 kilometres per hour, skidded into the rear of two vehicles before veering onto the…
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