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Man sentenced over drunk driving crash that killed friend, injured two others at Bray Park in 2018
A “reckless” speeding drunk driver who killed his friend and seriously injured two more in a “horrific” crash north of Brisbane has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in jail.
Key points:
- Four friends were in the car when it crashed in Bray Park after a party in 2018
- Dion Gundy died instantly and Daniel Hegarty suffered a catastrophic brain injury
- Driver Jerome Pilot pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and was sentenced today
Jerome Pilot, 25, was four times over the limit when he got behind the wheel of a car after leaving a party in Bray Park in September 2018.
Pilot had only been driving for a few minutes when he lost control, crashing the car through a front yard before it became “mangled” around a tree.
Dion Gundy, 22, was in the…
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