The husband of a young newlywed who was killed in an alleged golf buggy accident during their Hamilton Island honeymoon has pleaded not guilty after being charged over her death, but was a no show in court drawing the ire of the magistrate presiding over the case.
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OFF-duty police officers witnessed a speeding Kenworth truck collide with the rear of another big rig, then attempt to overtake, causing the driver of an oncoming truck to veer off the Cunningham Highway to avoid a head-on.
A decade later, that incident and other more recent offences were finalised by Ipswich Magistrateâs Court, when Dean Willett was sentenced and fined this week.
The long haul truck driver revealed he had been jailed in NSW for separate driving offences.
Dean George Willett, 48, from Corowa in NSW, pleaded guilty in Ipswich Magistrates Court to driving a prime-mover without due care and attention on the Cunningham Highway on July 18, 2008.