P-plate driver Jessica Nguyen clocks $8K in fines over two years

She has clocked up $8k in fines in less than two years and twice been suspended from driving — now P-plater Jessica Nguyen is under investigation after her father’s car was found crashed outside a police station.

Western Sydney teenager Jessica Nguyen has one of the worst ever driving records for a P-plater.

Since qualifying for her P-plates in July 2020, the 19-year-old has clocked up fines totalling $8169 for 12 separate offences.

This ranged from speeding more than 45km/h over the limit, to talking on the phone while driving, running red lights, and not displaying her red P-plates.

In the 20 months she has had a provisional licence, she has been issued suspensions totalling 19 months.

But that has not stopped the Miller teen from getting behind the wheel of her father’s white Honda Odyssey van.

She has pleaded guilty to two counts of driving the Honda with a suspended licence after police caught her behind the wheel twice in less than a month between December and January.

P-plater Jessica Nguyen, 19. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

NSW Police confirmed Ms Nguyen is now under investigation for an even more bizarre traffic incident that occurred on Wednesday, March 16 where the Honda was found crashed into a parked Toyota Camry almost directly out the front of Kogarah Police Station.

It was a one in a million shot — the Camry belonged to a police employee who was working in the station at the time.

“The driver reversed into the spot and collected the back end of the Camry,” a NSW Police spokeswoman said.

Police found the Honda empty with only the keys and some of Ms Nguyen’s personal effects inside.

Police believe the teen was due to visit her lawyer’s office in Kogarah on March 16 before her court appearance for the driving while suspended charges that were heard in Sutherland Local Court the following day.

But the mystery is now who was driving the Honda?

When approached by The Saturday Telegraph on Thursday, Ms Nguyen said: “It wasn’t me driving the car.”

Whoever it was is suspected of circling Kogarah Police Station several times in search of a parking spot.

Police raided a number of nearby legal practices in search of the teen, including one where they found a confused lawyer who shared the same first name as the teen.

It was soon discovered that Ms Nguyen was not at that particular legal office.

Ms Nguyen appeared in court the next day on the driving while suspended charges where her lawyer, Matthew Laba from firm Dib and Associates, requested the matter be adjourned to be joined up with drug supply charges his client is also facing.

Magistrate Jayeann Carney granted the request and adjourned the matter to March 22.

Shortly after the hearing, investigators summoned Ms Nguyen to Liverpool Police station where they issued her with a form of demand in an attempt to legally force her to reveal who was driving the Honda when it crashed at Kogarah.

A white Honda Odyssey van parked at Jessica Nguyen’s family home in Miller. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Ms Nguyen said she was not driving her father’s car when it crashed into a parked car. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

According to a police document tendered in the court, Ms Nguyen was initially suspended from driving for three months from May 11, 2021, after accumulating too many demerit points.

That was extended on August 12 for another one year and four months after she collected even more.

Less than two months into the suspension, Ms Nguyen was fined $469 for running a red light camera.

She was then charged for driving while suspended twice in the space of a month in December and January.

The first was on December 9 when police stopped Ms Nguyen for a breath test in Greenacre.

When the officers asked to see her license she allegedly said “I don’t have one, it’s suspended”, police documents tendered to Sutherland Local Court said.

On January 7, she was charged with a second count of driving while suspended when police pulled her over in Caringbah and gave her a defect notice for the Honda having a cracked windscreen.