A 20-YEAR-OLD woman who was on a suspended learner's licence when she was involved in a fatal car crash was a drug user who told police that she had smoked "five bongs" and "could not remember where she had been all night", a court was told yesterday.
The allegations were made at Gosford Local Court as Bianca Harrington was refused bail on charges of dangerous and negligent driving occasioning death and one count of driving while suspended.
The court heard Ms Harrington was driving with a 17-year-old female passenger in her father's Holden Commodore when it clipped another car just after 6am at North Gosford, on Saturday before ending up on the wrong side of the road where she ploughed head-on into the red Mitsubishi Mirage being driven by Kay Maria Shaylor, 62.
Ms Shaylor suffered several major injuries and was taken to Gosford Hospital before being flown to Royal North Shore Hospital where she later died. It is understood the nurse was on her way to work at the Chamberlain Gardens nursing home in Wyoming at the time of the crash.
Ms Harrington and her passenger were relatively unscathed.
Ms Harrington sat in the dock crying as her Legal Aid solicitor argued that community concerns over bail could be mitigated with strict conditions that she not occupy the driver's seat of a vehicle and she live with her disabled mother, who was seated in the public gallery, at Umina Beach.
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