A 25-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to killing a delivery driver in a hit-and-run crash in Adelaide's north.
Sophie Louise Brine was speeding through Salisbury South on January 4, when the car she was driving hit and killed Jatinder Brar, 25, who was working as a Woolworths truck driver.
She pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to an aggravated charge of death by dangerous driving and leaving an accident scene.
She appeared in court via video link, as Mr Brar's mother wept in the courtroom.
Brine — a mother of four — was refused bail and remanded in custody following a hearing in the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court three days after the crash.
The court heard the white Ford Territory involved in the fatal crash had been stolen from an address in Ferryden Park, north-west of Adelaide, sometime between December 28 and 29.
Police spotted the stolen car on Port Wakefield Road about 10 minutes before the crash, but the court heard the driver sped off in a dangerous manner and the pursuit ended.
The police prosecutor told the court a member of the public noticed the car clocking about 180 kilometres per hour shortly before hitting the truck, which hit a tree before rolling on Kings Road.
The court heard Brine did not stop, but was tracked by the police helicopter and arrested at a Taperoo property, where Brine allegedly had an imitation handgun in her handbag.
She was disqualified from driving at the time.
Brine is expected to be sentenced in November.
Friends pitched in to help family
Friends of Mr Brar started an online fundraiser following his death to help his grieving family, who live in India, and to assist with repatriating his body back to his home state of Punjab.
The post stated that Mr Brar was the "only person earning bread and butter" for his mother and sister as his father had died.
More than 2,000 people donated a total of $85,064 — surpassing the $80,000 his friends had hoped to raise.
The fatal crash happened near the site where Anglicare nurse Lucy Paveley died in a horrific crash after a teenager stole a car and was travelling at high speed in 2017.
