Legally blind ‘party girl’, 27, who was high on ice when she struck and killed a man wearing hi-vis at a bus stop is blasted by a judge after being found with a meth pipe in a car a year later
- Emily Alyse Hobson hit and killed Colin Paea, 62, at Melbourne bus stop in 2018
- Hobson was sentenced to a community corrections order but avoided jail time
- A year and a half after the collision Hobson caught with ice pipe inside her car
- Judge deferred Hobson’s sentencing for six months so she can prove herself
Emily Alyse Hobson, 30, (pictured) hit and killed Colin Paea, 62, at a bus stop in Tullamarine, northern Melbourne in March 2018.
A party girl who hit and killed a pedestrian while high on ice has pleaded guilty to drug possession after being found with a meth pipe in her car a year later.
Colin Paea, 62, was thrown 16m down the road and died almost instantly when Emily Alyse Hobson, now 30, hit him at a bus stop in Tullamarine, northern Melbourne in March 2018.
Blood sample tests later revealed Hobson had methylamphetamine and an antidepressant in her system.
Hobson was sentenced to a two-year community corrections order and banned from driving for three years in October after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death.
The Sunbury woman avoided prison though after a court heard she had an anxiety disorder and had been diagnosed with an eye condition which rendered her legally blind.
Hobson was caught with drugs and an ice pipe inside her parked car a year and a half after the collision
Crash scene pictured. Mr Paea, 62, died almost instantly when Hobson hit him at the bus stop – throwing him 16m down the road.
A year and a half after the collision – while still on bail – Hobson was caught with drugs and an ice pipe inside her parked car, 9News reported.
A judge criticised the young woman for not learning her lesson from the 2018 crash but will not sentence her over the drug possession charge until May next year, despite her pleading guilty.
‘You would think the earlier incident would have been an epiphany and sworn her off the substance for life,’ magistrate Dominic Lennon said.
‘If that wasn’t a wake-up call what would she need?’
Detectives had also found an ice pipe inside Hobson’s car after she fatally struck Mr Paea.
A witness to the crash said Hobson had claimed afterwards her victim ‘jumped out of the bus stop’, The Hume Leader reported.
Hobson (pictured) avoided prison over the deadly collision after a court heard she had an anxiety disorder and had been diagnosed with an eye condition
She also said the bus stop was not properly lit.
Mr Paea was wearing a hi-vis vest though when she hit him.
Hobson also admitted she could have used ice in the days before the crash and that the moments leading up to the collision were a ‘blur’.
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