Head-on crash driver avoids jail

A MAN who drove on the wrong side of the road has been spared jail for a head-on crash which seriously injured an Adelaide woman.

Judge Wayne Chivell jailed Udo Ikika Uduma for two years and six months but suspended the term and placed him on a $1000 three-year good behaviour bond and disqualified him from driving for 10 years.

The Nigerian-born 25-year-old was on the incorrect side on the road because of "inattention, or some other reason which is not apparent," the judge said on Thursday in the South Australian District Court.

At his trial, the prosecution had suggested the aged care worker may have thought he was in Nigeria where motorists drive on the right side.

In September, the judge found him guilty of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to Bettina Coscia.

She suffered numerous injuries including leg fractures in the collision, which occurred just before midnight on December 3, 2010, in the Adelaide Hills.

"She has ongoing pain, physical disability, psychological difficulty, and permanent scarring," the judge said.

He rejected a defence suggestion that Uduma suddenly drove onto the wrong side after being blinded by Ms Coscia's headlights.

Judge Chivell noted the offence had not involved drugs, alcohol, excessive speed or reckless driving.

Uduma, who came to Adelaide in 2009, supported his seven-year-old child in Nigeria, as well as his parents and three siblings.

He was well respected in the community and had shown great remorse, the judge said.

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