The Entrance: Hannah Jayne Logan pleads guilty to dangerous driving after near miss with police
A young Central Coast woman almost ploughed head-on into a police car that had been called to investigate her erratic driving before admitting to taking the drug “GHB”, a court has heard.
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A magistrate has cautioned a young woman to get legal advice or he would knock her “out of the park” with a heavy sentence after she pleaded guilty to almost crashing head-on into a police car.
Hannah Jayne Logan, of Ourimbah, faced Wyong Local Court on Monday where she pleaded guilty to one count of driving recklessly, furiously or in a dangerous manner.
The court heard she was almost certain to face another charge of driving under the influence after she admitted to taking the party drug GHB before getting behind the wheel, with police awaiting the laboratory results of a drug test.
An agreed set of facts states the 32-year-old full-time cleaner was driving her dad’s white Ford Fiesta about 8.30pm on December 28 when members of the public started ringing police about her erratic driving.
Police were travelling along Manning Rd at The Entrance when they saw the car turn into the street from Tuggerah Parade.
“The vehicle had no headlights illuminated and turned onto the incorrect side of the road,” the facts state.
“The vehicle continued driving on the incorrect side of the road, accelerating towards the oncoming police vehicle which had nowhere to go due to other vehicles parked on the side of the road.
“The driver of the police vehicle at the time, was forced to brake harshly with the white Ford Fiesta moving out of its path and only narrowly avoiding a head-on collision, before continuing to accelerate at a speed well above the posted 50km/h speed limit in an easterly direction.”
Police immediately activated their lights and sirens and pulled the car over. Logan was breath tested at the scene but returned a negative reading.
“While waiting for the results of the test, the accused informed police she had consumed `G’ in reference to gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB),” the facts state.
“Police observed damage to the right side of the vehicle, with the accused telling police she had earlier hit a telegraph pole but could not explain the circumstances surrounding the collision.”
Meanwhile police looked through the window and saw a glass “ice pipe” in the centre console.
Officers searched the car but only found the ice pipe that she said she bought for $20 earlier in the day but “had no intention of using it”.
“While police had the accused stopped on the side of the road, they were approached by two witnesses who voiced their concerns over her driving after both having near-miss incidents with the vehicle,” the facts state.
She was taken to Wyong Police Station where she underwent a drug-driving test, her licence was suspended and her keys confiscated until they were picked up by her dad who owned the car.
On Monday Magistrate Alan Railton said Logan was “quite likely” to be charged with driving under the influence of drugs once police received the results of her drug test.
He cautioned Logan, who was representing herself, to contact Legal Aid about getting a lawyer and some “subjective material” about her circumstances because if he sentenced her just on the facts currently before the court he would “knock you out of the park”.
He also adjourned her to undergo a sentencing assessment report.
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