'She died of a severe head injury, five months pregnant with a baby girl she had already named. 'She was thrown from the vehicle and on to the road and as a result she died. and came into contact with a concrete power pole. Her friend got out of the car as she could see what was going to happen.''īeattie was unable to do that and your car smashed at speed into the Mazda. They were lawfully parked on the side of the road. ''Unfortunately, Ms Beattie-Rihari was sitting in the driver's seat of her vehicle talking to a friend. 'No one else was on the road, you had the entire roadway to safely negotiate,' Judge McDonald said. The crash occurred during the level 4 Covid-19 lockdown. Sale also pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident without checking if anyone was injured, and to breaching an order under the Health Act to isolate at home. The sentencing - Sale's seventh for drink-driving - comes after he earlier pleaded guilty to driving with excess breath alcohol causing the death of 18-year-old Nga Roimata Beattie-Rihari.

Ioakimi Sale, 43, of Moerewa, was also disqualified from driving for six years by Judge John McDonald in Kaikohe District Court on Thursday. Video / FacebookĪ Northland man who killed a pregnant teenager after crashing into a parked car while almost four times the drink-drive limit has been jailed for four years and six months. Friends paid trubute after Nga Roimata Beattie-Rihari from Moerewa was killed April 20 when a car driven by repeat drink driver Ioakimi Sale hit her parked vehicle.

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