{"id":198223,"date":"2025-10-08T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198223\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:52:13","slug":"former-collingwood-afl-player-shannon-cox-sentenced-over-crash-that-killed-two-women-in-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198223\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Collingwood AFL player Shannon Cox sentenced over crash that killed two women in WA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Collingwood player Shannon Cox has been jailed for more than 10 years over the death of two women in a horrific highway crash.<\/p>\n

Cox, 39, was driving a Toyota Prado that crashed head-on into a Suzuki Ignis in Cooljarloo<\/a>, 170km north of Perth<\/a>, in June 2024.<\/p>\n

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The ex-footballer was travelling south when he drifted into oncoming traffic on Brand Hwy, hitting a truck and then the hatchback of longtime friends Coral Seinor, 83, and Thelma Clausen, 82.<\/p>\n

The pair died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Former AFL footballer Cox, who had his 12-year-old daughter in the front seat, had taken meth in the days before the crash and had hardly slept.<\/p>\n

He pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

In Perth\u2019s District Court<\/a> on Wednesday he was jailed for 10 years and six months.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer AFL player Shannon Cox has pleaded guilty over a fatal crash in June, 2024. Credit: 7NEWS\"JurienJurien Bay women Coral Seinor, 83 and Thelma Clausen, 82 died on Brand Highway. Credit: 7NEWS<\/p>\n

There were emotional scenes as daughters of both women, from Jurien Bay, read out impact statements.<\/p>\n

They told Cox that their families are now serving a life sentence of grief for his avoidable crime.<\/p>\n

Seinor and Clausen were described as selfless, kind-hearted and community-minded women.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir lives mattered. They left a legacy not just in what they did or who they were but how they made us feel \u2014 loved and safe,\u201d Suzanne Seinor said outside court.<\/p>\n

The pair were life members of the Country Women\u2019s Association and on a road trip to a CWA event when they died.<\/p>\n

Cox, who played 25 games for the Magpies across three seasons from 2007, will be eligible for parole in 2033.<\/p>\n

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