Man jailed over dangerous driving that killed girlfriend awarded $200k of her super

A man jailed over a dangerous driving incident in which his girlfriend was killed has been awarded $200,000 of her super, outraging her family.

On September 8, 2014, Blake Seabrook lost control of his car and collided with a road sign on Hervey Range Road near Townsville, Queensland.

The sign speared through his windscreen, fatally striking his girlfriend and passenger, Amanda Taylor.

Seabrook was sentenced to two years in jail, suspended after six months, after being convicted of dangerous driving causing death.

Since leaving jail, he has successfully applied for Ms Taylor's superannuation - even though she had nominated her sisters and parents as beneficiaries.

Australian Super awarded $200,000 to Seabrook, finding that he was living in a "bona fide de-facto relationship" with Ms Taylor at the time of her death.

Ms Taylor's mother, Tracey, said Seabrook just wanted to be paid.

She has taken legal action to dispute the decision.

"He wants to be paid for killing my daughter and it's not on," she told A Current Affair.

"He filled out a stat dec to say they were in a relationship for two years, we have proved that wrong.

"He said they were going to get married, we never heard of any marriage in the offing."

The family claim that a year before Ms Taylor died, she attended her sister's wedding with a different boyfriend, and that six months before she died she was living at another address to Seabrook.

Ms Taylor's sister Rebecca Campbell said the family would "definitely" fight the decision to award Seabrook the super.

"It's not about the money," she said.

"It's about the fact he killed her and now he's going to get a payout and live the life he's always wanted to."

Solicitor and superannuation expert Kristy Hatcher said most people were unaware that their instructions to the trustee of their super were only a preference.

She said the only way to definitively nominate where the money would go was to complete a binding death nomination form every three years.

Australian Super refused to comment while the case was before the courts.