Aaron Travis Pompey jailed over car crash where four passengers died

A life-threatening road accident has taken place on South Australia’s west coast in May 2009. A 20-year-old man, Aaron Travis Pompey was drunk and driving a stolen car when he crashed and killed his four passengers. The car left the road and when he overcorrected, it rolled down an embankment and hit a tree. Two of Pompey’s friends and another two teenagers from Western Australia, whom he had just met, were killed, but Pompey suffered some minor injuries. Police estimated that he was driving with a speed at between 170-183km/h. A court has heard afterwards. Today, he was pleaded guilty for aggravated causing death by dangerous driving, driving without licence as well as drink-driving. The judge set a total sentence of nine years and three months, but a non-parole period of five years. Judge Boylan gave Pompey credit of his guilty pleas and obvious remorse, but still, he had to impose a lengthy jail term. Other than this, Pompey was also banned from driving for 10 years.