A woman who crossed a median strip and drove through red lights at an intersection told police the brakes had failed on the car she was driving.
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Jasmine Louise Oborn, 26, of North Orange, was charged with dangerous driving on Summer Street and Lords Place.
Osborn was driving east along Summer Street towards the Lords Place intersection about 9.30am on February 20, last year when the crash occurred.
According to police the traffic lights at the intersection were red and there were cars banked up.
However, Oborn mounted the median strip, accelerated and drove onto the wrong side of the road and turned left onto Lords Place despite the red traffic light.
She stopped after about 40 metres when the vehicle came to rest against a median strip in Lords Place.
The front of the vehicle sustained significant damage due to signs and the median strips she hit.
She was not present when police arrived.
Magistrate David Day said she should have turned off the engine and used the handbrake if there was a problem with the breaks.
He gave her a seven-month custodial sentence, by way of an Intensive Correction Order, but did not disqualify her licence due to a police suspension.
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