A police officer has gone in trial for killing a motorcyclist as he did a U-turn to pursue a speeding driver.
Michael John Lenihan, 60, pleaded not guilty in Hamilton District Court yesterday to one charge of dangerous driving causing death and one of dangerous driving causing injury, The Waikato Times reported.
The charges were laid after an incident on April 18 when father of two Paul Brown, of Te Kauwhata was killed after his motorcycle collided with Lenihan's patrol car on Waerenga Rd, near Te Kauwhata.
The court was told Lenihan's radar clocked a ute travelling at 153kmh and as he did a U-turn on the brow of a hill to give chase Mr Brown's motorbike smashed into the patrol car.
