A manslaughter charge has been dropped against a teenage driver who caused the road death of Adelaide woman Lucy Paveley.
The 40-year-old Anglicare nurse died in a crash near Parafield Airport last year when she was driving to work.
Lyle Leonard Morrison, 18, was behind the wheel of an allegedly stolen four-wheel-drive which crashed into Ms Paveley's car at high speed on Main North Road.
Morrison pleaded guilty last September to causing death by dangerous driving but denied a manslaughter charge.
Adelaide Magistrates Court has now heard the Director of Public Prosecutions had decided to drop the manslaughter charge.
Morrison's early guilty plea to the dangerous driving charge entitles him to a discount of up to 40 per cent on his sentence.
The maximum sentence for someone charged with death by dangerous driving for a first time is 15 years' imprisonment.
He will also be sentenced for leaving an accident scene after causing harm, driving while disqualified and driving dangerously to escape police.
Morrison will be arraigned in the District Court in May ahead of sentencing.
After the fatal smash, colleagues set up fundraisers to support the Paveley family.
