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Moruya woman Michelle Zutt escapes jail over crash death

December 8, 2025 6:36 am in by
23-year-old Jakob Peck was killed instantly when struck from behind by Michelle Zutt's vehicle. Image: GoFundMe

A Moruya woman, convicted of causing the death a man after ramming up the back of his SUV at 100k’s per hour, has escaped a jail sentence.

Bega District Court was told during her weeklong trial Michelle Zutt was on her to Kmart in Batemans Bay to buy storage containers when the crash happened on the Princes Highway at Bimbimbie.

The driver of the Toyota Rav 4, 23-year-old Jakob Peck was stopped waiting turn into Old Mossy Point Road when he was killed.

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The 47-year-old has been sentenced to a two-year intensive correction order and ordered to complete 360 hours of community service.

Zutt’s licence was suspended for three years, backdated to July 4, 2023.

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