Stephen Harold Dove pleads guilty to dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death

Sandra Nolan was killed when her station wagon collided with a ute west of Brisbane. Now, the man behind the wheel of the ute has been jailed.

A MAN who was ruled to have caused the death of a 75-year old woman in a road crash on the Cunningham Highway has received a two-year jail penalty.

Appearing before Ipswich District Court for sentence on Thursday two years after the fatality, the driver Stephen Harold Dove, 67, from Grange, pleaded guilty to dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death.

A local woman died in a fatal head-on crash on the Cunningham Hwy near Caswells Lane at Mutdapilly in 2019.

The Crown prosecution charge relates to a crash on the Cunningham Highway at Mutdapilly at 11.55am on Friday July 5, 2019.

Dove was the driver of a twin-cab utility that collided with the elderly woman’s station wagon.

Mutdapilly woman Sandra Nolan, a grandmother and great grandmother, died at the scene.

A man was charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death after the crash.

Dove was injured in the accident.

Judge Dennis Lynch QC sentenced Dove to a two-year jail order that was suspended for three years.

Dove was disqualified from driving for two years.