4:20 PM By JO-MARIE BROWN
The ambulance driver who killed an 85-year-old pensioner on the way to an accident could have made three emergency stops from the time he first spotted her to when she was hit.
Brendon Douglas McInnes told the Auckland District Court today he had expected Marjorie McGill, of
St Heliers, to see the ambulance coming and move out of the way.
McInnes, aged 28, is standing trial on one charge of dangerous driving causing death and an alternative charge of careless use of a motor vehicle, after he struck Mrs McGill outside her Long Drive home on 22 December 1999.
Under cross-examination by crown prosecutor Gina de Graaff, McInnes yesterday agreed there had been sufficient time to stop.
Ms de Graaff said if the ambulance was travelling at 95km/h, it would have taken just under four seconds to make an emergency stop.
"I suggest to you that you could have carried out three emergency stops during that period. That's the position isn't it?"
McInnes, referring to a police investigator's report, answered, "that's what it says, yes."
The trial, before Judge Stan Thorburn, is due to conclude tomorrow.
