Driver sentenced to 9.5 years jail after killing young woman in Baldivis crash

Evie Lyn Butterworth has been sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison. PIC: 7News

A driver has been sentenced to nine-and-a-half years behind bars after killing a 21-year-old woman in a high-speed crash in Baldivis.

Evie Lyn Butterworth was on a cocktail of drugs including meth, cocaine and cannabis, when she slammed into Abbey Rose Sheriff's Nissan X-Trail at the Mundijong Road on-ramp of the Kwinana Freeway in January last year.

The force caused Ms Sheriff's car to roll several times before it eventually came to rest nearly 100 metres away.

Tragically, she died at the scene.

Ms Butterworth was sentenced in the Supreme Court on Thursday.

The court heard she was speeding at the the time of the crash and was high on drugs.

She had also been previously fined for driving while under the influence of drugs five years earlier.

Ms Butterworth will have to serve at least seven-and-a-half years before being eligible for parole.

The mother-of-one will also be disqualified from driving for ten years after her release from prison.

Ms Sheriff's parents have donated their daughter's wrecked car to the RAC for a road safety campaign.

Abbey Sheriff tragically died at the scene. PIC: Facebook 

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