Alanah May Childs pleads guilty to driving charge over Mary Street fatal
A 29-year-old Gympie woman has been sentenced over the shocking pre-Christmas incident in Mary Street that eventually led to the death of another woman. Full details:
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A 29-year-old Gympie woman has lost her licence for six months after she struck and killed an 83-year-old woman who was crossing a street in the city centre weeks before Christmas.
Alanah May Childs pleaded guilty on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, to driving without due care or attention causing death over the November 14, 2024, incident at the corner on Monkland and Mary Streets.
Childs was charged after hitting the elderly woman with her GWM Cannon ute when she went to turn into Monkland St from Mary St.
The woman, from Kandanga, suffered a significant head injury in the incident and died 11 days later in Gympie Hospital, on November 25.
Childs was disqualified from driving for six months and ordered to serve 220 hours community service.
A conviction was not recorded.
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