Police have charged a 41-year-old woman with offences, including high range drink driving, over the deaths of Maitland harness racing couple Peter and Cheryl Lowe.
Officers from the Newcastle Crash Investigation Unit charged the woman, from Allworth, with:
* two counts of aggravated dangerous driving occasioning death;
* four counts of dangerous driving occasioning death;
* two counts of negligent driving occasioning death;
* high range PCA.
News of the charges came to the Maitland Mercury yesterday.
The 41-year-old woman has been bailed to until her next appearance in Maitland Local Court on June 16, the day after Mrs Lowe would have celebrated her 52nd birthday.
Peter Lowe, 58, and Cheryl, 51, were killed in their car a few hundred metres from their South Maitland home on February 1 this year when their Holden Commodore and a Ford Falcon collided on Cessnock Road, Maitland.
Mrs Lowe, a teetotaller, was taking her husband home after she had earlier dropped off two harness racing apprentices at their houses.