A Stawell woman is to return to court in Ballarat, charged over a fatal crash that killed four south-west grandmothers returning from a night of line dancing.
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Lorraine Nicholson, in her 60s, is accused of culpable and dangerous driving causing the deaths of the women when her Jeep allegedly T-boned their Kia on an isolated stretch of road at Navarre in the state's west.
Dianne Barr, 64, from Heywood; Claudia Jackson, 72 from Portland; Tess Ely, 74, from Hamilton; and Elaine Middleton, 75, from Hamilton died at the scene on May 5 last year.
The women were heading home after a Country Capers line dancing event at St Arnaud.
Ms Nicholson, from nearby Stawell, is also accused of driving 89km/h in an 80km/h zone and failing to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of Stawell-Avoca Road and Ararat-St Arnaud Road.
She suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Ms Nicholson is on bail and required to attend the committal hearing at Ballarat Magistrates Court on Friday.
