Barry John Reidy, a council employee, crashed into 61-year-old Dani Gordon as she crossed a residential highway in Doonside throughout an early morning stroll on March 31, 2020.
The 57-year-old truck driver was turning proper into the highway and had did not preserve a correct lookout as he briefly drove within the northbound lane, the District Court docket discovered on Monday.
Whereas Reidy considers the incident as "purely a horrible accident", a jury in June discovered him responsible of harmful driving occasioning loss of life.
Choose Sarah Harris stated Reidy's inattention was not fleeting or totally restricted to the 0.88 seconds Gordon was seen on the truck's sprint digicam.
"Nor, nevertheless, was it far more than mere inattention," she stated on Monday.
While a jail time period was essential, Choose Harris stated it might be served by an intensive corrections order in gentle of the case's circumstances.
Reidy had an extended historical past of fine behaviour, excellent prospects of rehabilitation and low ethical culpability, she stated.
She ordered he serve two years' imprisonment locally by means of an intensive corrections order that started on Monday.
He will likely be required to stay on good behaviour, comply with cheap instructions of Corrective Companies NSW, seek the advice of together with his GP a couple of psychological well being care plan and be handled by a psychologist as required.
He can even have to carry out 480 hours of group service.
Any breach might lead to additional situations or Reidy being pressured to serve half or all of his sentence in a jail.
His licence can even stay suspended till March 31, 2023.
On the time of the crash, Reidy had been driving rubbish vehicles for 20 years and spent 25 years at Blacktown Metropolis Council.
He was conversant in the route.
When struck, Gordon was close to the centre of the highway.
She hit the truck's windshield, cracking it, after which tumbled ahead and hit her head on the highway.
Her widower, Graham Wilson, advised the court docket he went into shock on the scene of the incident and "felt my coronary heart was being ripped out of my physique".
Now, struggling to get off the bed every day, he speaks to a photograph of her in the home that they had shared and tries to recall their good occasions collectively.
Choose Harris stated the household's statements of grief have been "a strong and shifting document of their loss which can proceed without end".