Australian skirts jail for two fatal crashes at the same spot

Australian skirts jail for two fatal crashes at the same spotSydney - An Australian motorist walked free from an Adelaide court Thursday despite being found guilty of causing two fatal accidents at the same intersection seven years apart.

Michelle Thiele, 38, was successful in her appeal against a one-month jail term for driving without due care.

She hit and killed a motorcyclist two years ago and had been given an eight-month sentence that was suspended for seven months.

In 2000, after an accident at the same spot, she escaped with a fine for causing the death of another car driver.

Thiele was put on a two-year good-behaviour bond.(dpa)