Brooke Hayley Reid pleads guilty in Bundaberg court to driving offences

A Bundaberg mum-of-three smashed into an occupied parked car and a petrol bowser while making a getaway from police. Now she’s been delivered a sentence in court.

Brooke Hayley Reid has faced court for driving offences.

A Bundaberg mum’s efforts to avoid police landed her behind bars.

Brooke Hayley Reid appeared in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Monday where she pleaded guilty to a number of offences including one count of failing to stop for police, as well as drug and traffic offences.

The court heard the most serious crime on the 30-year-old’s charge sheet happened after she pulled in to the United service station on November 7, 2023.

Reid tried to get away when she saw police were present, and in the process she crashed into a parked car, causing moderate damage, before crashing in to a petrol bowser and concrete bollard.

Reid was also facing court on Monday for an offence committed on June 17, 2022, where she was caught driving disqualified and was found to have drugs in her car.

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On September 19, she failed to appear.

The court heard the defendant had battled a meth addiction as well as mental health and other concerns.

Reid, who appeared by videolink from prison, pleaded guilty to two counts of driving uninsured, two counts of driving while disqualified, one count of possessing drug utensils, three counts of possessing dangerous drugs, two counts of driving an unregistered car, one count of failing to appear, one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, one count of failing to stop, one count of stealing and one count of using fake licence plates.

She received a head sentence of 15 months in jail. With 82 days pre-sentence custody taken into account, she was given immediate parole.

The defendant was disqualified from driving for two years for one count of driving disqualified and three for the other, as well as two years for dangerous driving.

Reid was ordered to pay $800 in fines for driving uninsured, referred to SPER.

Convictions were recorded.