A Queensland learner driver has been jailed for at least a year after her dangerous driving left a toddler with catastrophic brain injuries.
Brisbane District Court was told on Monday that Madison Lorraine McKenzie, 23, of Redcliffe, was speeding with a blood alcohol level of .08 and without a supervising driver on the afternoon of November 28, 2021.
A two-year-old boy was riding his bike along the side of Georgina Street with his parents and older brother in the suburb of Woody Point on the coast north of Brisbane.
At about 4.10 p.m. the boy steered his front wheel into the gutter and attempted to cross the road while his parents called on him to stop….