(Stuff.co.nz) A Timaru woman has been ordered to pay $14,000 reparation to two women from Vanuatu who she hit in her car while she was grossly intoxicated.
Deborah Ann Gavan, 41, sales assistant, pleaded guilty to causing bodily injury while driving with a breath-alcohol level of 1449mcg in Timaru on November 21. She was well over three times the legal limit.
Her car hit a truck and then sledged into two Vanuatu women visiting Timaru.
One is still awaiting surgery in Wellington.
Judge David Saunders ordered Gavan to pay $11,000 to one victim and $3000 to the other.
Gavan had raised a loan against her house to get the reparation money.
The judge said the victims were lucky to escape with their lives when Gavan's car ploughed into them in Evans Street, Timaru. The judge said if there was to be meaningful reparation, Gavan had to stay in the community to earn money.
He sentenced her to nine months home detention, to abstain from drugs and alcohol, to take counselling as directed and to pay the reparation by Monday.
He also ordered her to do 200 hours of community work, some of which could be converted into training hours. Gavan was also indefinitely disqualified from driving.
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