Leading Senior Constable Bradley Beecroft was charged after he travelled at a excessive pace to assist an injured colleague who was concerned in a collision on the facet of a freeway.
He appeared at Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court at present for a contest listening to, which can run over 4 days.
Dashcam imaginative and prescient together with police body-worn digicam footage was performed in court docket at present, the place he was recorded saying: “I don’t care about speed” after passing a pace digicam.
He and his associate have been responding, beneath lights and sirens, to a different officer who had been rear-ended on the Hume Highway close to Eurora in Victoria’s north-east.
He then activated lights and sirens in addition to the in-car digicam, partaking in what’s referred to as “urgent duty driving”.
The court docket heard the injured officer had stated on the radio he was injured, “dazed and confused”.
Beecroft’s associate at present advised the court docket he was not involved sufficient to inform the accused to decelerate.
Source: www.9news.com.au
