Leisa Power: Tingalpa woman guilty of driving UIL, causing crash
A Brisbane woman has told a court she took her sister’s prescription medication when she rolled her car in Logan.
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A Brisbane woman has been fined $1700 and lost her licence for 11 months after rolling her car in a quiet suburban Logan street, breaking her nose, while on a “cocktail” of prescription medication.
Tingalpa woman Leisa Maree Power, 41, pleaded guilty in Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Monday to one count each of driving under the influence of a drug or liquor and driving without due care and attention.
The court heard the incident occurred about 5.30pm on March 19 last year.
Police were called to reports of a traffic incident at Dalby St, Holmview.
When they arrived, they discovered a blue Great Wall vehicle resting on its right hand side near a parked grey Ford Falcon with damage to its rear panel.
Power was still seated in the overturned Great Wall vehicle and she refused to talk to the responding officers, the court heard.
Witnesses told the officers Power was travelling southbound “swerving all over the road” when she hit the other vehicle and rolled onto her side.
Power was eventually assisted from the vehicle and transported to hospital, where a blood test revealed she had a “cocktail” of prescription drugs in her system.
She was “heavily inebriated” by these drugs which led to an “impairment of skills and inability to operate the vehicle in the tight suburban road,” the court heard.
Power suffered a broken nose and concussion.
Power, who has no criminal history, told the court last March was a “distressing time” in her life.
She said she had just separated from her partner and had run out of medication.
Her sister gave her some of her medication, which Power categorised as sleeping pills she took the evening before her accident.
“They really reacted with my medication,” she told the court.
Magistrate Michael O’Driscoll advised her to stick to her own medication in future.
Convictions were recorded.
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