A woman who drove at speeds reaching 210km/h on the Hume Freeway heading into Albury has been given the chance to stay out of jail.
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Former Albury woman Sophie Elizabeth Sweeney was to have been sentenced in Albury Local Court this week over her actions back on June 12.
But defence lawyer Dane Keenes asked magistrate Richard Funston for a sentencing adjournment for his client.
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Mr Keenes said Sweeney, now a resident of West Melbourne, was still under a community corrections order in Victoria.
Until that order expired on December 4, he said, Sweeney could not move back to NSW.
If she does not live in NSW Sweeney is ineligible for an intensive corrections order, which is a term of custody served in the community.
She would instead have to serve a full-time jail sentence.
Prosecutor Sergeant Andrew Pike previously submitted to the court that Sweeney's offending was of such seriousness that the threshold for a jail sentence definitely had been crossed.
Sweeney, 31, is now facing sentence on December 6 for police pursuit and driving under the influence of drugs, namely cannabis.
At the previous mention of her case two months ago, the court heard that Sweeney drove through a stretch of roadworks north of Albury on the Hume Freeway at an estimated 195km/h, despite this being clearly signposted as an 80km/h zone.
Police were doing speed checks on the freeway north of Bowna Road on June 12 when they earlier saw Sweeney's hatch approach from the south at 133km/h.
They followed, but she accelerated to 210km/h.
She continued to drive at high-speed until she stopped near Racecourse Road.
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