By Zoe Zaczek For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 10:34 BST, 15 May 2019 | Updated: 10:34 BST, 15 May 2019
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A grandmother who killed an eight-year-old girl and a 52-year-old man after veering across a road and hitting a ute while yawning and making a hands-free phone call won't be jailed.
Olivia Douglas was in the back of Leona Pauline Paraha's car on the way to a netball carnival in Bundaberg, north of Brisbane, on September 14 2018, when she was killed in a head-on collision.
Paraha, 69, who was travelling in a convoy from the Gold Cast to the netball carnival, veered across the road and fatally hit Shane Old's ute.
The grandmother recalled yawning and calling her husband of 45-years via bluetooth before the fatal accident, News-Mail reported.
Olivia Douglas (left) was in the back of Leona Pauline Paraha's car on the way to a netball carnival in Bundaberg, north of Brisbane, on September 14 2018, when she was killed in a head-on collision. Paraha, 69, who was travelling in a convoy from the Gold Cast to the netball carnival, veered across the road and fatally hit Shane Old's (right) ute
Paraha was sentenced on Tuesday by Magistrate Terry Duroux to five months' imprisonment wholly suspended for a two year operational period and she was disqualified from holding a drivers