- An ‘alcoholic’ mother has avoided jail despite driving six-times over legal limit
- Renee Codd was handed 45-day sentence in September after crashing car drunk
- She blew 0.294 blood-alcohol level and had her one-year-old son in backseat
- Melbourne court overturned the decision saying she had learned from mistake
An ‘alcoholic’ mother has been spared jail despite crashing her car while driving six-times over the legal limit with her young child in the backseat.
Renee Codd was handed a 45-day jail sentence in September when she crashed her car after picking up her one-year-old son from a Melbourne daycare. She blew a 0.294 blood-alcohol level.
Despite being convicted twice before of drink driving, Ms Codd’s sentence was overturned, with the judge sympathising with the single mother’s plight.
‘I’m not going to lecture you,’ the judge said. ‘You’ve realised the low ebb that you hit.’
Renee Codd was handed a 45-day jail sentence in September when she crashed her car after picking up her one-year-old son from a Melbourne daycare
![Ms Codd crashed in Sunbury after a day of heavy drinking following an argument with her ex-boyfriend. She lost control while passing through a roundabout, crashing into a ditch](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/12/04/13/46F883DC00000578-5143637-image-a-138_1512392831590.jpg)
Ms Codd crashed in Sunbury after a day of heavy drinking following an argument with her ex-boyfriend. She lost control while passing through a roundabout, crashing into a ditch
Ms Codd crashed her vehicle in Sunbury, west of the city’s CBD, after a day of heavy drinking following an argument with her ex-boyfriend.
She lost control while passing through a roundabout, crashing her car into a ditch.
Despite the reading, nearly six-times the legal limit, Ms Codd said she had only drank two bottles of wine that day.
She appealed the court’s decision on Monday, with her lawyer, Sheron Kermath, noting her client was a strong member of the community and held a Master’s degree in speech pathology, but was suffering from alcoholism and a chronic anxiety disorder.
!['She feels sick every day and vomits nearly every day because of what could have happened,' her lawyer said](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/12/04/13/46F883D800000578-5143637-image-a-139_1512392838772.jpg)
‘She feels sick every day and vomits nearly every day because of what could have happened,’ her lawyer said
She has since undergone a $10,000 alcohol rehabilitation program.
‘She feels sick every day and vomits nearly every day because of what could have happened,’ her lawyer said.
Ms Codd was given a one-year community corrections order and had her license disqualified for four years.