Mohinder Singh, on Friday gave evidence against his former employer and confessed he was “on drugs” before his semi-trailer ran off the road on April 22, 2020, and killed the officers.
Sydney trucking company chiefs never questioned why their driver’s timesheets were filled with errors, impossible hours and incorrect rest breaks before he fatally ran down four police officers outside Melbourne, a court has heard.
Connect’s national operations manager, Cris Large, is fighting four charges, including recklessly exposing people to the risk of injury or death, in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court.Singh, who was behind the wheel of a Connect 20-tonne rig, dialled in from Melbourne’s metropolitan remand prison on Friday to give evidence for prosecutors.
The scene of the crash on the Eastern Freeway, Kew, in Victoria, which claimed the life of four police officers.Connect records, particularly driver timesheets, are key to the case against Large, the court has heard.The court heard Singh recorded a rest break at 9.20pm at Lyndhurst the night before the crash. But he also wrote, on the same sheet, that he had left Lyndhurst at 9pm.
“He went in and had a meeting with the Melbourne supervisor and, following which, got behind the wheel of the truck. An hour after that the accident occurred,” Single told the court.
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