The lawyer representing a wealthy Chinese woman, Lanlan Yang, has told a Sydney court her defence needs extra time to decide on a plea, after New South Wales police added additional charges.

The 23-year-old has been accused of driving a $1.5m Rolls-Royce SUV which crashed head-on into a car driven by George Plassaras, a driver for Sydney radio host Kyle Sandilands, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on 26 July.

Plassaras suffered serious injuries in the collision.

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Yang was initially charged with causing bodily harm by misconduct and refusing or failing to submit to a breath test. She was later additionally charged with dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm and failing to provide police with her details.

She now also faces the fifth charge of n

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