Rachel Van Oyen closed her eyes for a split second and crashed into a tree on a country Western Australia highway, killing her twin daughters.

A year and a half into living with the pain, she could have been sent back to jail today.

But instead she won her appeal and was allowed to go back home to Mandurah where she raised her two little girls.

"A weight lifted, I could breathe, and in my mind it was more thanking my girls, because I know they're watching over me somehow," she told 9News exclusively.

The 32-year-old was initially jailed for eight months for careless driving causing death and ordered to serve two months immediately in March, then released two days later on bail, pending an appeal arguing her sentence was "manifestly excessive".

"I was not prepared for that

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