{"id":2888,"date":"2025-12-12T04:02:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2025-12-12T04:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:02:49","slug":"british-backpacker-jailed-for-4-years-over-fatal-drunk-e-scooter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2888","title":{"rendered":"British backpacker jailed for 4 years over fatal drunk e-scooter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A British backpacker who struck and killed a man while riding an e-scooter drunk has been jailed for four years in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Alicia Kemp, 25 &#8211; from Redditch, Worcestershire &#8211; was driving at speeds of 20 to 25km\/h (12 to 15mph) when she hit 51-year-old Thanh Phan from behind on a Perth sidewalk in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She had been drinking with a friend all afternoon, the court heard, and had an alcohol level more than three times the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Phan, a father-of-two, hit his head on the pavement and died in hospital from a brain bleed two days later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A friend of Kemp, who was a passenger on the scooter, was also hurt in the crash &#8211; sustaining a fractured skull and broken nose &#8211; but her injuries were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Kemp, who was in Australia on a working holiday visa, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death in the Perth Magistrates Court in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Her sentence will be backdated to 1 June, and she&#8217;ll be eligible for parole after serving two years of her sentence. Her driver&#8217;s licence was also disqualified for two years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#British #backpacker #jailed #years #fatal #drunk #escooter #crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British backpacker who struc&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}