The maximum penalties for driving offences which cause death or grievous bodily harm have been increased under laws passed by the State Government.
The laws closely follow community outrage over the sentence handed down in December to the man who fatally struck Camp Hill woman Yasmin McAllister.
The driver, who pleaded guilty to one charge of careless driving, was handed a three-month wholly suspended prison sentence and allowed back on the road in six months.
At the time her devastated father Glynn Harnell broke down outside Holland Park Magistrates Court and called for harsher penalties against reckless drivers.