A judge says two police officers injured in an encounter on the Calder Highway in 2018 will carry the "awful" experience with them for the rest of their lives.
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County Court Judge Paul Lacava sentenced Shari Oliver, 26, to nine months' imprisonment and a two-year community corrections order with treatment for her role in the incident.
Oliver was a passenger in a car that the two police officers tried to check on the evening of July 6, 2018 at Kangaroo Flat.
During the encounter Oliver gouged an officer's eye and scratched at his face.
She fought with the police officer for control of the gear stick when he tried to prevent the car being driven away.
The officer was forced to jump from the moving vehicle and had to roll off the road to avoid being hit by oncoming vehicles.
During the incident, an open door on the moving car also hit a second police officer and threw her into a tree.
Oliver was using ice and GHB at the time of the offending.
Both police officers were hospitalised overnight.
The male officer sustained severe back and rib soreness, cuts and abrasions, while his colleague was left with a broken wrist, cuts to her head, and other minor cuts and abrasions.
Judge Lacava said victim impact statements submitted to the court showed the officers had suffered not only physically, but emotionally and psychologically.
"I think it's fair to see that each of them will carry the effects of what can only be described as an awful encounter... for the rest of their lives," Judge Lacava said.
"They'll have it with them on each shift that they work respectively as police officers, and they will carry the awful experience with them in their usual lives as citizens, who have family and loved ones to consider."
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Oliver pleaded guilty last week to two counts of conduct endangering persons, two counts of recklessly causing injury, committing an indictable offence on bail and failing to answer bail.
Judge Lacava noted Oliver had no prior convictions at the time of her offending, and had a background he described as "tragic".
He accepted the offending was spontaneous, but it was a serious example of these offences.
But he said Oliver's guilty pleas were beneficial and he accepted them as a sign of remorse.
In sentencing Oliver, Judge Lacava declared she had already served 265 days - just short of nine months - in custody.
After her release, she will embark on a community corrections order with treatment for drug abuse, offending behaviour programs, residential rehabilitation and judicial monitoring.
Had she not pleaded guilty, Oliver would have been sentenced to four and a half years' imprisonment with a non-parole period of three years.
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