Kyla
06-24-2004, 06:58 PM
Teen driver jailed
June 24, 2004
A DRUNKEN teenage driver whose friend was left a quadriplegic when he crashed a car into a Melbourne house was jailed today for at least 18 months.
Timothy Scott Allum, 19, also narrowly missed hitting two female pedestrians, one pregnant, when he lost control of the car in Orange Grove in suburban Bayswater, on May 22 last year, the court head.
In sentencing Allum to a maximum two-and-a-half years jail, County Court judge Ian Robertson said he took into account the fact that Allum, of Bayswater, had no prior convictions.
Nonetheless, because of Allum's flagrant disregard for the law, a young man would remain in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, Judge Robertson said.
The judge noted that young, inexperienced drivers, often appeared before the courts charged with such offences.
June 24, 2004
A DRUNKEN teenage driver whose friend was left a quadriplegic when he crashed a car into a Melbourne house was jailed today for at least 18 months.
Timothy Scott Allum, 19, also narrowly missed hitting two female pedestrians, one pregnant, when he lost control of the car in Orange Grove in suburban Bayswater, on May 22 last year, the court head.
In sentencing Allum to a maximum two-and-a-half years jail, County Court judge Ian Robertson said he took into account the fact that Allum, of Bayswater, had no prior convictions.
Nonetheless, because of Allum's flagrant disregard for the law, a young man would remain in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, Judge Robertson said.
The judge noted that young, inexperienced drivers, often appeared before the courts charged with such offences.