A Dubbo driver who was sentenced to time behind bars after leaving a woman with bleeding on her brain after a road-rage incident has had her bid for appeals bail knocked back.
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On Tuesday Marcia Ann Dixon, 43, was convicted and sentenced to a two-year term of imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 18 months for the incident that occurred on September 3, 2020.
According to court documents, the conflict between Dixon and the woman began when they were both driving through the roundabout at the intersection of Cobra and Fitzroy Streets.
The woman was driving a Toyota Prado while going through the roundabout and tried to overtake Dixon - who was driving a Holden sedan on the inside lane.
After exiting the roundabout, the occupants of the Prado and Dixon yelled at each other through the car windows as they travelled along Cobra Street.
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Dixon pulled over near Brigalow Avenue, after another vehicle - driven by someone the woman in the Prado knew - intervened in the dispute.
Court documents said Dixon started yelling at the driver of the other vehicle and threw a coffee cup at him, while occupants of the Prado pulled up and got out in front of her and began kicking her car.
While that was happening the woman who had been driving the Prado reversed it back closer to where Dixon was pulled up, got out and began filming the incident.
Dixon got back in her car and went to drive off, however as she drove off, the front passenger side of the vehicle struck the woman filming.
A truck tried to block two lanes of traffic to stop Dixon from driving away, however she managed to leave the scene and drove to her son's house to tell him what happened.
She later presented herself to Dubbo Police Station where she was arrested.
According to court documents the woman Dixon hit suffered a range of injuries including bleeding on the brain, a liver laceration and rib, pelvic and facial fractures, which she has since recovered from.
Dixon was sentenced in the Dubbo Local Court for a charge of causing reckless grievous bodily harm, and at the time of her arrest she spent nine months remanded in custody.
Following her sentence on Tuesday, an appeal against the severity of the jail term handed down was launched, and will be heard in the Dubbo District Court in March next year.
In the meantime, Dixon appeared via audio-visual link on Wednesday, where defence lawyer Bill Dickens applied for her bail until that hearing.
Mr Dickens said the Crown had no objection to granting bail on the conditions she had been on when she was released from remand.
He argued his client had a long history of stable residence, and stable family circumstances.
"She's always appeared in court. There is a long period of compliance with bail conditions that have been fixed," Mr Dickens said.
Denying her bid for bail would affect her rights of appeal, Mr Dickens argued.
"If she's not to get bail for the next three months, that would diminish her rights of having a decision of yesterday reviewed on appeal," he said.
However Magistrate Gary Wilson refused bail, as he believed there was no reason for Dixon to begin serving her sentence.
"She's pleaded guilty to a very serious offence, she's been sentenced for a very serious offence. I don't know why she can't start serving that sentence," he said.