A Hastings mother has been spared jail after causing a car crash which killed her 8-year-old son.
Kim Crous has been sentenced in the Napier District Court this morning, after pleading guilty to careless driving causing death, and two charges of careless driving causing injury.
She's received six months supervision, and been disqualified from driving for a year.
Ms Crous was checking Google Maps on her smart phone while driving along the Hawke's Bay Expressway when she ploughed into a vehicle which had stopped for road-works in April last year.
She was on her way to a play date for her two children in Bayview and was using her cell phone as navigation.
James Crous (8) was wearing a seatbelt, but broke his neck and died at the scene.
Her 5-year-old daughter and a passenger in the other car were also injured.
