A MOTHER has been given a temporary driving ban after she killed a woman and paralysed her own daughter because she was not paying attention while driving.

One person died and four others were injured during the head-on crash on Peldon Road.

38-year-old Leonie Troke admitted causing death by careless driving when she appeared at Colchester Magistrates’ Court at a hearing earlier this month.

Today she was sentenced at the same court to 180 hours unpaid work and banned from driving for 18 months.

Troke was driving her Volkswagen Polo along the road in Little Wigborough on July 25 last year with daughters Lucille, five, and Josephine, two, in the back seats.

Coming the other way along the single carriageway road was a Vauxhall Astra being driven by a woman who had her 82-year-old mother, Jean Wilcox, in the front passenger seat.

Troke suffered a period of “momentary inattention” and lost control, clipping the kerb, or a rut in the road.

Two wheels left the road and when they landed again she tried to regain control by veering to the right.

But she overdid it and swung wildly over to the wrong side of the road, causing the collision.

Jean Wilcox suffered multiple injuries and died at the scene.

Lucille suffered injuries to her liver, spleen, lungs, spine and brain.

She is paralysed from the waist down and will never walk again.

The driver of the Vauxhall Astra suffered a fractured pelvis, and was treated at Colchester General Hospital.

Troke, of Halton Lane, Wendover, broke her leg and dislocated her ankle while her youngest daughter was also taken to hospital but escaped with minor injuries.

Ms Wilcox lived in Waltham Cross and was spending time with her daughter, from Mayland, before she was killed.