Mum accused of causing crash that killed son to face Supreme Court
A PALMERSTON mother will face the Supreme Court next month accused of driving drunk and high and causing a crash that killed her young son and friend last year.
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A PALMERSTON mother will face the Supreme Court next month accused of driving drunk and high and causing a crash that killed her young son and friend last year.
Andrea Groening, 25, appeared in the Darwin Local Court flanked by a friend on Wednesday afternoon.
Groening, of Moulden, stands charged with dangerous driving causing the death of her seven-year-old son Mehali Anastasios Pastrikos following a horror crash where she allegedly ran a red light on the corner of Tiger Brennan Dr and Berrimah Rd last May.
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She also stands charged with driving dangerously and causing the death of her 21-year-old friend Wade Williams, who was in her car at the time, and for causing serious harm to the 42-year-old driver of another car.
Members of Mr Williams’ family also attended court on Wednesday.
The case is set to be formally handed up to the Supreme Court on July 30.
Groening also stands charged with medium-range drink driving and driving while under the influence of drugs.
She will return to the Darwin Local Court to face those charges in August.
Groening’s NT Legal Aid lawyer Nicola MacCarron asked that her client, who is out on bail, be excused from attending her next two court appearances.
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Evidence expected to be tendered in court as a part of the case include CCTV footage of the fatal crash and analysis from an electronic recording device fitted to the car Groening crashed into.
At his funeral in July, Mehali was remembered as a “beautiful cheeky boy” who was his dad’s best friend.
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