Lake Munmorah: Father’s grief at “maniac” driver Michael Wells who killed his daughter Yasemin Osman

The father of a woman, 29, killed by a “maniac” driver travelling nearly twice the speed limit to show off his WRX has delivered a heartbreaking account of the moment their lives were “destroyed”.

A tearful grandfather has described the harrowing moment he found out his first born daughter was killed by a “maniac” driver travelling nearly twice the speed limit just to “show off” his performance car to a workmate.

Osman Osman read out his victim impact statement in Gosford District Court on Friday during the sentence hearing of Michael James Patrick Wells, who pleaded guilty to aggravated dangerous driving occasioning death.

The 35-year-old was behind the wheel of a Subaru WRX when he flicked it into “sports mode” and said “we’ll go fast” in a bid to show off the car to a mate who was thinking about buying one.

An agreed set of facts states Wells reached speeds of 138km/h on the Pacific Highway at Lake Munmorah before ploughing into Yasemin Osman, 29, as she turned right into Colongra Bay Drive.

The force of the collision shunted Ms Osman’s Toyota Landcruiser 8m off the road and into a metal power pole with such force she was killed instantly.

Wells also pleaded guilty to causing his passenger “bodily harm from wanton driving”.

Ms Osman’s father said he had spent a blissful afternoon playing and singing songs with his daughter and her two young children before she went to buy nappies.

Yasemin Osman, 29, was killed when a WRX being driven by Michael Wells slammed into her Toyota Landcruiser on the Pacific Highway at Lake Munmorah. Picture: Facebook

When she didn’t return from the shops “five minutes away” Mr Osman, who was still playing with his daughter’s eldest child, started to get worried.

Mr Osman said after calling and calling her, a female police officer finally answered his daughter’s phone about 10pm and explained she had been killed by a speeding driver.

Mr Osman said his daughter died “just a few streets away” on her way home.

“Little did she know a maniac like you Michael Wells would be on the road driving nearly 60km/h over the limit,” he told Wells who was seated in the dock.

“How can you live with yourself?

“No one else but you Michael Wells took my daughter’s life.”

Wells arriving at an earlier appearance at Wyong Local Court.

Mr Osman told the court how he drives past the crash site every day on his way to work and while the skid marks had faded away with time and weather, his family and his two grandchildren had been “condemned to hell” of a life without their mother.

He said he also struggled to comprehend how or why someone could be travelling so fast in a little WRX as to push Ms Osman’s “huge Landcruiser” off the road with such force as to wrap it around a pole.

“I hope the court can deliver justice for Yasemin and her two little babies,” he said.

The damage to both cars was extensive. Picture: supplied

The court heard Wells, who was 33 at the time of the crash on October 16, 2020, also had two children, aged seven and nine, was married and had an otherwise unremarkable traffic record.

Giving evidence Wells said “I would do anything to take it back” and conceded he caused the crash purely because he was speeding and showing off.

“There’s not a day goes by I don’t think about it and I’m sorry,” he said through tears.

Wells’ solicitor told the court his client accepted no other penalty than imprisonment would be appropriate before Judge Michael King adjourned the matter to July 15 for sentence.

Wells’ bail was continued.