Whanganui MP Chester Borrows has denied a careless driving causing injury charge.
Whanganui MP Chester Borrows appeared in Whanganui District Court on Monday facing a charge of careless driving causing injury.
Mr Borrows, who is deputy speaker of Parliament, is charged under his birth name Kerry James Borrows. He has pleaded not guilty.
He allegedly drove into protesters Tracey Treadwell and Denise
Lockett outside Whanganui's Collegiate Motor Inn in Liverpool Street on March 22.
Ms Treadwell - who was treated at Whanganui Hospital after the incident - and Ms Lockett were among a group of protesters opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Mr Borrows was at the Motor Inn attending a breakfast meeting of the Whanganui Chamber of Commerce with Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett.