Former model seen playing ‘excessively’ with hair before flipping car on Ipswich motorway in Qld

A drug-driving former model was seen exhibiting very strange and dangerous behaviour in her car before it flipped in a horrific crash.

A former promo model was seen to be playing with her hair and driving erratically before flipping her car in a drug-induced crash, a court has been told.

Hannah Renae Page was already on two suspended sentences when she crashed on the Ipswich motorway in September last year, requiring paramedics to wheel her away in a stretcher.

Hannah Renae Page’s suspended sentences were activated by the Supreme Court in Brisbane over two breaches last year.

Alarmingly, her offending came less than a week after a Queensland court found she had breached a previous suspended jail term for drug trafficking.

She will now remain behind bars until May after Brisbane Supreme Court activated both sentences to run with a current jail term she received in November 2020 for firearm and drug offences.

Page, 30, sat quietly in the dock as crown prosecutor Michael Andronicus told the court she was seen driving erratically at Rocklea, south of Brisbane, on September 24, 2020.

Witnesses described the car as swerving from side to side and observed Page “playing with her hair in the rear view mirror excessively”.

Mr Andronicus said Page was conscious and coherent when she was wheeled away on a stretcher.

Page (pictured) crashed her car south of Brisbane last year after driving erratically, later admitting she had taken drugs earlier that day.

She later told authorities she had consumed drugs earlier that day and was inattentive on the road.

Mr Andronicus called her driving “reckless and serious” as she was also unlicensed at the time.

He noted Page received a $1500 fine and 30 month disqualification period in December for driving under the influence of drugs, careless driving / driving without due care and attention and disqualified driving.

The court was told Page had been handed a suspended sentence in December 2017 for a number of drug trafficking offences.

In addition to sentencing her on Friday, Justice Peter Davis handed her another suspended sentence on September 18 last year for possessing the drug ice.

The court was told Page’s crash in September 2020 and her firearm and drug offences, committed in February that same year, were in breach of two Supreme Court-imposed suspended sentences.

In November last year, Page was jailed for 12 months at Richlands Magistrates Court for possessing a sawn-off .22 calibre rifle back in February.

Mr Andronicus said police located digital scales containing a small amount of “white residue” and three smartphones worth about $950 when they searched her Richlands home.

A video on her phone depicted her firing the rifle on instruction from the driver.

Mr Andronicus said she refused to give officers the passcode to one of her phones.

Justice Davis noted the offences could not be dealt with by him in September last year as there were “negotiations” ongoing and “things were still in contest”.

The court was told Page had performed well on parole and was motivated to address her drug issues.

Justice Davis activated both of Page’s suspended sentences, setting her parole eligibility date for May.

“The (Richlands) magistrate should have had regard for the fact this court thought your release for the purpose of rehabilitation was appropriate,” Justice Davis said.

“To have you serve six months … seems an odd exercise of discretion.”