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Driver, 77, sentenced over Qld death

An elderly Queensland driver has been handed a suspended jail sentence and a lifetime driving ban for running down and killing a woman in 2012.

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A 77-year-old woman has been handed a four-year suspended jail term for running down and killing a pregnant mother at a Brisbane festival.

Kerryn Blucher, 33, was 35 weeks pregnant when she was struck by a car and killed at the Redland Spring Festival at the Cleveland Showgrounds on September 8, 2012.

The Crestmead woman left behind her husband, Vaughan, and two-year-old daughter, Kiara.

Clare Hansson appeared in the Brisbane District Court on Tuesday, where she pleaded guilty to one charge of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death, a court official told AAP.

She was sentenced to four years jail, wholly suspended.

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Hansson was also disqualified from driving for the rest of her life.

Police alleged Hansson lost control of her car and ploughed into Mrs Blucher.


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