Adelaide mum jailed for killing four-year-old daughter in freeway crash

KYLIE Anne Hie was driving home from a funeral when she slammed into the back of a truck, killing her four-year-old Charlotte.

Kylie Hie has been jailed for killing her daughter Charlotte in a car crash. Picture: Calum Robertson

A WOMAN who killed her four-year-old daughter in an Adelaide freeway crash while she was high on drugs has been jailed for three years.

Kylie Anne Hie, 34, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving for crashing her van into the back of a truck on Adelaide’s South Eastern Freeway in November 2013, killing her daughter Charlotte.

SA District Court Judge Paul Slattery jailed Hie for three years, saying she had been driving erratically and it was incredibly lucky no one else was badly hurt in the crash during busy morning traffic.

Pictures tendered to the court show the extent of the crash.

The horror collision was captured on CCTV and shown to the court.

The court heard little Charlotte was sat illegally in the front passenger seat of the HiAce van as Hie tailgated other cars and drifted into other lanes at 100km/h, the Adelaide Advertiser reports.

Earlier in the journey, Hie had a row with her sister, Erica — who had been sitting on a fold-out sofa in the back of the van — over winding down a window, leaving Erica her on the side of the road. The family had been on their way home from a funeral in Mount Gambier, the newspaper reported.

The horror crash was caught on CCTV.

“She was my best friend … my everything. It was always the two of us and I miss her so much,” Hie told the newspaper in the weeks after the crash.