Ingleside: Garbage truck driver Ron Tauariki charged after L-plate driver, 16, and mum suffer injuries in Mona Vale Rd crash
Details have emerged of the devastating injuries suffered by a learner driver and his mum when a garbage truck collided with their hatchback. The truck driver has been charged.
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Details have emerged of the devastating spinal injuries suffered by a L-plate driver and his mother from the northern beaches when their car collided with a garbage truck.
A boy, 16, who was driving the Mazda hatchback on Mona Vale Rd at Ingleside, has a compression fracture of a vertebrae in his lower spine after the October 9 collision.
His 55-year-old mother, who was in the front passenger seat, has multiple fractures from her neck, down through her thoracic and lumbar spine.
Police will allege in court that the truck - driven by 42-year-old Ron Tauariki - crossed to the wrong side of the road before the crash.
A friend of the family told this publication the pair was now out of hospital.
“But they are both in a significant amount of pain,” the friend said.
“Their road to recovery will be long.”
The mother and son were injured after the truck crashed into a Peugeot hatchback before colliding with their Mazda at 3.30pm.
A man, 71, who was driving the Peugeot, was injured and had to be cut from the wreckage by emergency services personnel before being taken to Royal North Shore Hospital in a serious condition.
His female passenger, 67, was also hurt.
The L-plate driver and his mother were also taken to RNS in a stable condition.
Tauariki was not injured.
In a statement police said its Crash Investigation Unit investigated the circumstances surrounding the incident
“Following inquiries, a 42-year-old man was arrested at the scene and taken to Manly police station.
“He was charged with two counts of dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm — drive manner dangerous, cause bodily harm by misconduct in charge of motor vehicle and negligent driving (occasioning grievous bodily harm).”
Tauariki appeared at Manly Local Court on October 10, where he was granted conditional bail to appear before the same court on November 29.
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