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Subscriber only A five-year-old girl and her parents are lucky to be alive after a drink driver crashed into their car head on, leaving the girl with a collapsed lung and a brain injury. Police found two 600ml plastic bottles with wine in Stephen Benjamin Hayes s car after the crash on December 14 in 2019. Hayes was more than twice the legal limit when he crashed into the victim family s car about 8.15pm on Diddillibah Road. The girl s mother managed to drag herself out of the window while her partner waited to be freed from the wreckage. The woman suffered a fractured thigh bone, knee and ankle and a deep cut to her knee.
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Subscriber only A Coast mum was busted supplying meth after an operation targeting drug traffickers led police to her, a court has heard. Emma Lee Crang, 37, pleaded guilty to supplying meth in Maroochydore District Court on Tuesday, supported by her mother and the father of her youngest child. The court heard police had obtained a warrant to intercept a man s phone in July 2019 as part of a police operation targeting meth trafficking. It heard police intercepted 57 instances of communication between Crang and the man who had supplied meth to her. Crown prosecutor Madalyn Olivero told the Maroochydore District Court Crang had not been a principal target of the operation.