Stefan Lee Hannon McGinn was supposed to give way at this intersection in Taupiri. He roared straight through and into another car, killing Hamilton man Trevor Bland.

A teenaged driver who hooned straight through an intersection and slammed into another car - killing one of its occupants - has been labelled a "poster boy" for arrogant, self-entitled young male drivers.

Stefan Lee Hannon McGinn​ was jailed for two years and three months when he appeared in the Hamilton District Court on Monday on charges of dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing injury.

Trevor Bland, 56, the driver of the car Hannon McGinn struck, suffered critical injuries and died in Waikato Hospital. The force of the Nissan slamming into Bland's Mazda sent the smaller car flying into a concrete power pole. Bland took the full force of the impact.

The crash near Taupiri on March 12 last year should never have happened because the 19-year-old should never have been behind the wheel that day. His learner licence had been revoked after he racked up a stack of demerit points.

Even if he still had his learner's licence, he was transporting two young men aged 17 and 19 - neither of whom had a licence themselves - which was a direct contravention of learner licence driving conditions.

The warrant of the unregistered car Hannon McGinn was driving had expired in January 2014.

And a police check of his cellphone records showed that in the minutes before the impact at 4.55pm, he had been receiving and sending text messages while behind the wheel.

It was an insouciant, callous attitude that he carried on after the deadly smash, telling the police the brakes on his car had failed - a subsequent investigation found they hadn't - and denying he had been using his cellphone.

He later failed to show up for four scheduled interviews with the police, refused to give them his home address and when he eventually did, gave them a false address.

He denied the charges against him and was ultimately found guilty at a judge-alone trial in August this year.

He then failed to attend a pre-sentence meeting with his probation officer and was also caught driving again.

Although he displayed little reaction in court, Hannon McGinn would have been left in little doubt of his standing in the eyes of his victims or the judge.

In a statement read out in court, the dead man's daughter Melissa Bland eviscerated him.

"You are stupid, a stupid boy who never learned from his mistakes," she said.

"You are a little coward with no sense of integrity or responsibility.

"You are now a convicted killer. I hope you think about it every night before you go to sleep. You took the life of a great man."

Trevor Bland's partner, Kim Robinson, who suffered fractures to her face, eye socket, ribs, sternum and spine in the crash, also had a statement read.

"You destroyed a big part of my life and left me broken. You will get to walk free, live again in the future. Trevor gets nothing. He is now ashes and you did that to him. I hope every day you feel the shame and remorse."

But it was an evident lack of remorse that left Judge Kim Saunders apparently stunned as she sentenced Hannon McGinn.

"You are a poster child for why young men should not be behind the wheel of a vehicle. It is a lethal weapon," she said.

Saunders said she struggled to understand why he had driven again after having been found guilty at the trial.

"I have no idea what on earth you were thinking, that it was your right to continue to drive."

Hannon McGinn had written a letter of remorse in which he said his time in custody had opened his eyes.

He said he was genuinely sorry and now understood the loss and pain the Bland family were going through because he was also going through a loss - a loss of freedom.

"It is not comparable at all," exclaimed the judge. "It is your own self that you are dwelling on. Whether it is because of your age or that you cannot understand the consequences of your actions, it is hard to tell."

Someone who apparently did understand the consequences was Hannon McGinn's mother, who had withheld consent for her home to be used as a home-detention venue.

"I think like the rest of us she has struggled to accept your overwhelming sense of entitlement and self-pity.

"Your mother is described [in a pre-sentence report] as frustrated and despairing of your behaviour."

The judge took a start point of three years in prison and increased this slightly to account for Hannon McGinn's lengthy list of past driving misdeeds.

"This was no momentary lack of judgment. It was prolonged bad driving."

She allowed for a 20 per cent deduction to reflect Hannon McGinn's youth, and another 10 per cent for his remorse.

"I'm troubled greatly as to whether you are genuinely sincere."

Judge Saunders also disqualified him from driving for four years.