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Garbage truck driver Shah Newaz handed suspended sentence over fatal Darwin crash
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Shah Newaz was sentenced today after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death last week.
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The family of a woman killed in a head-on collision with a garbage truck in Darwin has condemned the truck driver s suspended sentence as an insult to her memory .
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The court heard the garbage truck driver had nine seconds to respond to banked-up traffic but failed to do so
Justice Stephen Southwood said Shah Newaz had shown genuine remorse
The victim s husband said his family was haunted by the tragedy