Motorists and community expectations

"An obstetrician who was drunk when he killed a young woman and gravely injured a man in a crash in Perth. Rhys Bellinge was jailed for 10 years and six months after killing Elizabeth Pearce, 24, and causing lasting injuries to Uber driver Muhammad Usman, then 25, when his high-performance Jaguar ploughed into their Honda Jazz." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-25/roger-cook-backs-rhys-bellinge-manslaughter-sentence/106387722

"Jake Danby hit two Aboriginal men with his car on a Darwin street, killing one and injuring the other. He was handed a 12-month community corrections order, with five months in home detention. Danby’s home detention was increased from five months to two years, as three court of criminal appeal judges upheld the application. Danby had bragged in text messages that the man he killed was an “oxygen thief” and he would not go to jail." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/21/nt-hit-and-run-driver-jake-danby-sentencing-extended-no-jail-ntwnfb

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