Ice-addicted Hastings five-time drug-driver cops five-year ban
A Hastings 28-year-old tried ice twice and became hooked. Now she’s in residential rehab and won’t be getting behind the wheel for a very, very long time.
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A dodgy drug driver nabbed behind the wheel while high on ice four times in 14 months has been ordered off the road for five years.
Jamie Louise Dean also refused to take an evidentiary oral fluid test after she racked up a preliminary positive for meth.
As well as the drug offences the 28-year-old from Hastings was caught speeding three times.
She pleaded guilty to a raft of driving charges and breaching a community corrections order at the online Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
In August 2019 Dean was seen speeding at 124km/h on the South Gippsland Highway at Blind Bight.
When she was pulled over she preliminarily tested positive for ice, but refused to accompany police to provide a full sample.
In December 2019 she was tested positive for meth when she was intercepted on the South Gippsland Highway in Clyde.
Then she was caught doing 72km/h in a 60km/h zone in Cardinia in March 2020, again testing positive for ice.
In August last year in Nyora she once more was speeding while high, and finally in October she was nabbed in Warragul again with meth in her system.
She admitted she had been using ice, saying “I’m useless” when she was asked why she continually drove with drugs in her system.
Her defence lawyer said Dean became hooked after trying ice just twice, and was now in voluntary residential rehab.
She said she knows she has to fix her addiction if she wants to live a normal life.
She said Dean was hoping to move to Newcastle in NSW tho be with her family once she had completed her drug treatment.
Magistrate Vicky Prapas said the “penny had dropped eventually” and her self-admission to a rehab centre was a credit to her.
But her continued disregard for road rules still deserved a very lengthy ban.
“It is lucky no one got hurt by your driving,” Ms Prapas said.
“The combination of drugs and speeding can have tragic consequences.
“This seems to be the wake-up call you needed.”
Dean was convicted and fined $3000, and disqualified from driving for five years.
