Court Report of R V Vibert

The Court Report of the Undecided Case of R V Vibert
Student’s Name
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Institution
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Case Content
Technical content
Observations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Introduction
Dangerous driving is among the serious traffic offences in New South Wales (Sanders, 2010).
The offences are provided for under the Crimes Act 1900 and the Road Transport Act 2013.
These serious traffic offences in NSW are collectively called major offences. Under Section 4 of
the Road Transport Act 2013, a major offence is;
“an offence by a person (the offender), in respect of the death of or bodily harm to another
person caused by or arising out of the use of a motor vehicle driven by the offender at the time of
the occurrence out of which the death of or harm to the other person arose”

An offender of any crime of that kind is either convicted of manslaughter or murder after trial
(Edney, and Bagaric, 2007. This court report will be looking at an accused person who was
charged with the offence of dangerous driving among other counts of traffic offences.
Case Content
I went at Parramatta District Court on the 29th of April 2019 at 9:30 am. Parramatta District
Court is a district court in NSW that has the jurisdiction of hearing serious criminal cases. The
judge’s name was J Bennett. The trial before the court was a criminal case involving an offender
accused of major traffic offence of dangerous driving by the name Athena Vibert from Balmoral,
who is now 52 years. Athena Vibert was accused of killing killed a mother (Julie Bullock) and
her son on March 7 2017, just before 8 am. Ms. Vibert was driving a silver Holden Astra and it
was alleged that she swerved across the median strip on the Hume Motorway where he crashed
head-on with the family of Mrs. Bullock leaving both cars mangled wrecks. The accused person
also got injured and had been hospitalized at Liverpool Hospital for several days. The crash took
place about 1 km south of the Picton Road- off. Mrs. Bullock had a daughter (Sienna) in her
four-wheel drive car who survived the accident but with severe injuries on her head and Chest.
The son did not die immediately after the accident but later at Liverpool Hospital where he had
been taken in a critical condition. Vibert was first prosecuted at Picton Local Court House. Ms.
Vibert was charged with other counts; negligent driving, driving occasioning grievous bodily
harm (Sienna), and driving on the dividing strip. After having previously made two pleas of not
guilty on two counts on July last year (2018), and in an unanticipated twist of events, on the 29th
of April 2019, Athena Vibert entered three guilty pleas and is now scheduled for a verdict on
August 28th 2019. The accused claimed that he too was injured in the accident and it was not his
fault completely. He also stated that he didn’t run from the crime scene which shows he was not
intentionally involved in the accident.
Technical content
Athena Vibert violated the s52A(1)a Crimes Act 1900 that provides that one is guilty of an
offence if the car he is driving gets into an impact that results in the death of another person. The