The case provides a useful catalogue of factors that aggravate the offence of aggravated dangerous driving under s 7A of the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act 1999 (ACT), including risk to vulnerable road users, excessive speed, driving on the wrong side of the road, running red lights, and fleeing police. A total effective sentence of 20 months imprisonment was imposed for aggravated dangerous driving as a repeat offender (15 months), driving while disqualified as a repeat offender (4 months partly cumulative), and minor theft (2 months cumulative), with the custodial part suspended under a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Order. The case also confirms that prior commencement of a sentence of imprisonment does not prevent the making of a DATO.
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