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The mom of NRL star Payne Haas faces three prices of manslaughter over a Gold Coast hinterland automobile crash that claimed the lives of three folks.
Uiatu “Joan” Taufua, 46, stays underneath police guard in Gold Coast Hospital after the accident at Bonogin on Friday afternoon.
She was charged on Monday with the manslaughter of Susan Zimmer, 70, her accomplice Chris Fawcett, 79, and Ms Zimmer’s daughter Stephanie, 35. All three have been killed in final week’s two-vehicle crash on the remoted hinterland highway.
Ms Taufua additionally faces one depend every of harmful operation of a motorized vehicle, evading police and driving with no driver’s license (demerit level suspended).
Police allege Ms Taufua was driving her Mercedes GLS 63 wagon erratically shortly earlier than the crash and refused to cease when officers tried to intercept her automobile.
Whereas the police didn’t launch a pursuit, the accident occurred moments later a couple of kilometer additional alongside the highway.
Queensland Police stated the collision pressured the Mercedes A200 hatch through which the Zimmers and Mr Fawcett have been touring from the highway into an influence pole.
Ms Taufua’s automobile burst into flames. She was freed by police and brought to Gold Coast College Hospital in a steady situation.
The only survivor of the crash, Ms Taufua stays within the hospital with quite a few fractures and different accidents.
She declined a police interview on Monday.
– with AAP
